I got so annoyed by this card I began searching for a good answer and discovered Hymm to Tourach, a card which is perhaps even more annoying.
Posted By:
thought_elemental
(12/6/2011 2:21:27 PM)
When this comes out with Cloudposts down, I just give up, even when I have a counter, because you know they are either running counters of their own or have another Capsize. Repeatable bounce for 6CMC is a trivial cost when colorless mana is so plentiful in the right conditions, and it seems those right conditions are pretty easy to get when the deck is focused on it.
Posted By:
igniteice
(5/1/2012 7:57:32 PM)
Total lockdown with one of each Sapphire Medallion and Memory Crystal...if you can get to that point...which isn't that hard to be honest.
Posted By:
forumbrowser
(6/10/2012 1:40:15 PM)
This card is the main reason most competitive pauper decks run blue. Once you have the mana available to buyback, this card enables board domination, especially if the oponnent has no answers for it.
Very annoying to play against, very fun to play with =)
Posted By:
MechaKraken
(6/12/2012 8:52:51 PM)
This card should switch names with Boomerang for the same reasons than Zombify should switch names with Rise from the Grave.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(8/8/2012 3:19:30 AM)
Very good in EDH where this can turn the tide of the game just as well as a Wrath effect.
Posted By:
XRakd0sXNinjaX
(11/15/2012 8:12:33 PM)
Unfortunately, Cyclonic Rift seems to generally trump this - except that this chips away at the mana base.
Still 4.5.
Posted By:
humor_love
(6/6/2013 2:13:32 AM)
The only thing keeping this remotely balanced is its ridiculous inefficiency.
Any format in which you can utilize other, more obviously broken things (like tolarian academy) to negate that inefficiency, it goes from being balanced, to being crazily overpowered.
If you don't see the power of this thing at first glance, understand that its power lies in being able to cast it 2-3 times every turn, in the right deck.
Posted By:
Fictionarious
(8/25/2013 7:23:13 PM)
@humor_love "cyclonic rift seems to trump this" humina zeemina saywhatnow? can i use the rift to save my own permanents?
@DarthParallax "Jace tMS ... completely obsolted..." WTF? Am i even reading the same card as you? Dont get me, wrong Jace is very badass, but in NO universe does he do what capsize can do. Unsummon, maybe.
Im going to have to reconstruct my Urz'a era blue deck just so I can hear this during game play:
Player "Ok, my jace has 10 loyalty, and im gonna activate his +2 abil-"
me: "capsize."
Posted By:
nunyaJs
(11/28/2013 12:13:07 AM)
A one card lock-down potentially. You keep moving up the mana curve and your opponent keeps replaying the same creatures or lands until you finally gain the advantage.
This is a stall card that eventually can take a game all by itself. For instance, say you:
T3 - Extraplanar Lens
T4 - Bounce something
T5 - Bounce something and play a 2-drop
T6 - Bounce something and play a 4-drop
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(1/31/2014 2:24:35 PM)