so what is should say... "T:pay the casting cost for a nonland card in your hand and exile it. Play this ability only if there are no cards exiled by _this_. T: Play a card exiled by _this_."
that could be fun... if it wasn't slow and fragial, but defanatly could brake a storm deck.
Posted By:
wolfbear2
(12/20/2009 9:41:24 PM)
Very good card. It lets you tap it and pay the mana cost of a spell to play that spell. Very good you see. :P
I would love for them to reprint this with altered art where the Witch is staring into the cauldron with a vague confused look.
Posted By:
EGarrett01
(4/14/2010 8:42:45 AM)
One of the most underrated cards from Ice Age. This card does two great things that really help. One it lets you escape disastrous discard effects like duress by exiling the very card they would have caused you to discard without losing the ability to play the card. The fact you can play the exiled card long after Ice Calderon leaves play makes this really great. Also, if you have ways to untap artifacts and add charge counters, the first activated ability attaches the amount of mana spent on the card itself, not the specific counter it's added, so if it somehow gained a 2nd charge counter after adding lets say RRGG with it's first ability, you could tap it for RRGG, untap the artifact and tap it again to add another RRGG, allowing you to cast some real monsters that you exiled.
But in my opinion, it's real power is it's ultimate ability to exile cards for casting later, where almost no one can touch them. There are literally dozens of ways of getting cards out of your hand, ther... (see all)
Posted By:
jonb86
(1/21/2011 7:00:18 PM)
Definitely interesting, albeit very convoluted. It is certainly not without uses, as this and consistent land drops could be a sixth turn Darksteel Colossus or some such. Not mind-blowing, but certainly not awful. And a fatty Comet Storm that used all of your mana from your opponent's EOT, and all of the mana on your turn would be pretty helpful :P
It also has the strange Muse Vesselesque hand protection sort of use, as well...not quite so compelling, but not useless, either.
Posted By:
izzet_guild_mage
(4/15/2010 10:26:17 AM)
I got this card in one of my very first booster packs, and it sat in my trade binder ever since. Only now do I realize it's potential. You could haveEmrakul, the Aeons Torn out on turn six! Or even better: It That Betrays by turn 5.
Posted By:
themlsna
(6/2/2010 1:24:06 PM)
Text is almost as confusing as Cyclopean Tomb.
Posted By:
001010011100101110
(7/25/2010 5:47:20 PM)
Translation: "Make a mana down payment for a card. It need not be the full mana cost."
Seems like one of the most efficient mana batteries there is: You get 1 back for every 1 you put in and you're able to charge it with several mana at once. Rarely (never?) does a card allow both. I'm surprised this isn't rated a lot higher. Play a nice big spell earlier than normal or drop your combo all at once.
Posted By:
Nathreet
(10/17/2010 1:26:47 PM)
Mana battery and Gustha's Scepter rolled into one. Unfortunately, the high mana cost makes it much more unplayable than Gustha's Scepter.
Posted By:
KicktheCAN
(1/15/2011 8:10:58 PM)
I don't feel like reading all of that.
Posted By:
JFM2796
(7/30/2011 1:59:41 PM)