What a horse-shit card to be printed just for EDH, a format designed for casual fun. What's fun about a loophole in the rules causing you to no longer have access to the one card around which you built your deck?
If you play to win, fine. But I'm taking this out of my precon (Devour for Power doesn't even have any other countermagic, it's just in there for you to be a dick), and I've promised at least one friend that if he ever uses this card on my general outside of a tournament, I will punch him and then immediately concede even if I still have a chance to win. You kill my fun, I kill yours.
@KingJCa, you tell me to stop thinking in absolutes and then claim the opposite absolute. Good show. Magic is a game, you gain absolutely nothing by winning. If you're not having fun, you're wasting your time. If you use mean cards to win in un-fun ways, you're wasting someone else's time.
@Kirbster, don't worry, I didn't punch anyone. The threat of not playing anymore was more ... (see all)
Posted By:
MisterAction
(1/13/2013 2:21:03 PM)
This card is great in my Volrath's Shapeshifter deck. No worries on covering up my top creature card.
Posted By:
Vanturi
(9/25/2012 11:20:28 AM)
"I summon my Commander-"
"Nope, Hinder!"
"... Wait, seriously."
"Yep!"
*several turns and much shuffling later*
"Aha! Look who's back it's my Comm-"
"Spell Crumple!"
"... I tap two fingers and bring out my Switchblade."
"I'm not sure you can play that..."
"It's okay. It's an artifact."
Posted By:
El_Richardo
(1/27/2013 7:47:50 PM)
@MisterAction: fun is a very subjective thing. A lot of people would agree that denial cards like this and Hinder shape a funnier meta than bombs like the Titan cycle.
Posted By:
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
(1/29/2013 12:33:16 PM)
One of the best 3 mana counterspells in Magic. It's not as good as Dissipate, but it sends Flashback and Dredge spells to a place opponents can't get to...It even recurs when used with shuffle effects! 5/5
Posted By:
Mitch_360
(7/29/2011 9:31:52 PM)
Functioning Archmage Ascension. Good game.
Posted By:
Falgorn
(8/25/2011 7:46:37 AM)
Both players with no cards in hand, nothing in play but lands and a single card in each library - one Spell Crumple versus one would-be lethal Fireball.
Yet another way to draw games due to persistent game state, after Platinum Angel + Abyssal Persecutor (again with no cards in library etc)!
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(11/21/2011 9:27:37 PM)
What a nasty card. 5/5 just for the simple fact, that this will screw with my opponent.
Posted By:
Speednat
(2/2/2012 11:34:26 PM)
3/5
A variant of Hinder; no more, no less.
Posted By:
Dubbios
(3/30/2012 9:37:20 AM)
Half an extra star for the illustration. In other words, 5/5.
Posted By:
Tiggurix
(5/7/2012 6:04:19 AM)