Great draw denial card when paired with Witches' Eye.
Don't like your top card, but your opponent does? Tap Pyxis and deny your opponent a card they want.
Don't like your top card and they don't know if they want theirs? Tap Pyxis and have your opponent lose a card without knowing what it might have been.
They finally destroy Pyxis? You know you lost nothing of value in the exchange while they could well have lost a God or Planeswalker.
Conversely, if you know your opponent doesn't have artifact/permanent removal spells you can load up on expensive creatures and use multiple Pyxis to draw them onto the field.
If nothing else, it's a card that makes opponents stop and reassess the board state.
Posted By:
odog1999
(2/2/2014 9:14:13 AM)
It's a cool card. Nice casual slot.
I don't see this ever being powerful- it seems extremely engineered to be VERY casual-- 'bad, but admittedly in a fun way'- which is slightly different from 'designed to be powerful in multiplayer', or, 'designed to be Shivan Dragon-good, which normally doesn't cut it in cutthroat'. What sets it APART from some other Johnny Cards, is that it's not UNdesigned either XD (Knowledge Pool? Warp World? Eye of the Storm? Those cards look 'UNDesigned' to me :P They exist to make the game terrible. They make you be the Joker or not use them. XD ) This card, you CAN actually....DO things with. Weak things. or Slow things. :P But still, Things. :)
1. It effects all players. That means it gives even your opponents a chance at ridiculous free plays.
2. It costs 7 to activate, meaning it needs a slow format or mana ramp or something. If you want to win, this is the top of your curve probably.
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Posted By:
DarthParallax
(10/13/2013 6:32:09 PM)
My only gripe about this card is, she looks like the box stinks and she's covering her nose... it's probably the small card art frame.
Posted By:
sweetgab
(9/19/2013 10:50:52 PM)
It doesn't pretend to be Pandora's box, but has enough flavor to hint. I like it Wizards. Like most equal effects If you build a deck around it you're going to come out better. You'll be exiling your opponents Cancels and Doom Blades and Sphinx's revelations while you're bringing out Angel of Serenitys Ashen Riders and Colossal whales - everything you need to take care of any bombs they do get.
Posted By:
Cloudchaser.Kestrel
(9/20/2013 11:37:15 PM)
Does anyone know if the activation of the 7 mana ability applies to all cards exiled with that specific Pyxis of Pandemonium only, or to all cards exiled with any Pyxis of Pandemonium?
Posted By:
jdietz43
(9/22/2013 10:51:50 PM)
Multiplayer all star. A fun build around in a deck with very few instants and sorceries and could actually have some use messing with the scrys in Theros.
Posted By:
Purplerooster
(9/24/2013 8:52:17 PM)
This card makes me think how much would the phyxians change this plane if they invade it!
Posted By:
Matsumoto
(9/25/2013 8:36:08 PM)
I believe that each card exiled will identify to each pyxis that exiled it. You could put all exiled cards under the specific card as long as you have different sleeves. Not a horrible 1 drop in a mill deck, and can mess with scry at instant speed, when they get used to you taking their top card and rearrange their scry to stop the pyxis just don't use it, discuised to look bad it can really mess up people in limited.
Posted By:
cha0sc0w
(10/5/2013 9:27:44 PM)
This card might be underrated. Show and Tell and Oath of Druids "suffers" from the same disadvantage as this card: each player gets the exact same advantage, so it's strength instead relies on the assumption that the cards you put into your deck intending to cheat into play (no deck tries to "hardcast" Progenitus) will outstrip the power of any card your opponent puts into play.
And since this card puts permanents into play on a mass scale, it actually gives you card advantage if both/either your opponent has a good number of non-permanents in his deck, and/or the permanents in your deck have a disproportionate number of CiP abilities. Sure, you have to guard it for 6 turns (with no mana ramping), but that was a problem Delver of Secrets didn't mind undertaking.
Posted By:
nirvava
(11/2/2013 1:56:40 AM)
What happens to the exiled cards when the pyxis is destroyed by a spell? Seems exploitable.
Posted By:
DmitryM
(11/3/2013 5:23:18 PM)