The way ante could work IMO is that there isn't ante at the start of the game, but there is ante if it is part of your own card's cost, or part of an optional effect of an opponent's card (like rebirth). Obviously this card would still be broken terribly, but... it was an idea worth bringing up.
Posted By:
TheKazu
(12/8/2012 3:54:27 PM)
If this was still legal I would run it just as an excuse to have a 56 card deck.
Posted By:
GrayWizard
(2/21/2013 6:01:44 PM)
Leaving aside the question of ante as a concept, why did WotC feel like the cards & the game should insert itself the players agreement over an ante? I mean, is there a variant of poker that says, "If you're showing an ace, you have to raise?" So weird.
The goofy little ante clause just really, really ruins what is otherwise the no-brainer most powerful card in this history of this game. AR, TW, and BL got nothin' on this.
In casual, I've sometimes thought a fun way to take care of ante is to give the game winner the option of SBing in the card they "won" for subsequent games in the match (and, obviously, they give it back to you after the match). Something like that could give this idea a new life in vintage and maybe even legacy.
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(12/20/2013 5:46:27 PM)
/giggle...they misspelled the artist's name on the Revised version lol
Posted By:
endersblade
(4/9/2012 9:19:45 PM)
The "drawback" is silly when it reads
, you win the game.
They failed to see the synergy between this + Moxen + Lotus... Same thing for Timetwister and Wheel of Fortune.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(9/1/2012 11:50:56 AM)
Mox, Mox, Lotus, Land, Ritual, Specter, New Hand. Yeah, Alpha-Revised was pretty messed up.
Posted By:
RedAtrocitus
(11/9/2012 12:06:01 PM)
the best of the ante cards, by far.
Posted By:
FourEx
(3/29/2013 7:07:43 PM)
Technically the best draw spell ever. Even outdoes Ancestral Recall. Pity it's never ever legal.
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(5/14/2013 11:32:11 PM)
@deathbyminions
No offense, but this would never be in a deck with the firemind. The cards have two completely different power levels. If you're running this card then you'd be swinging turn two with a juzam djinn, and probably be killing with a first to suffer. There certainly wouldn't be off color six-drops in the deck.
Posted By:
patronofthesound
(7/16/2013 4:06:24 PM)
This is the only fair ante card (in terms of ante, not effect), and should have been the model other ante cards followed. The problem with every other ante card is it just screws over your opponent by either trading ownership with an opponent's card (Darkpact), letting you take back your ante (Jeweled Bird), or just making the opponent lose another card to ante (Demonic Attorney).
This represents the best form of ante, and shows what Black is best at: great power at any cost. It doesn't force your opponent to risk even more cards, all you are doing is risking another of your own cards in the hope that what you draw will win the game. Yes you will most likely win the game after using it, but it's still a risk. If you win, they only lose the card they might have lost anyway even if you didn't play this card; if you lose, then you lost another card and that's the risk you take when you play the card.
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Posted By:
CunsoTheRandom
(1/19/2014 10:05:44 AM)