I very much appreciate the goal of cards always doing what they say, so that players don't have to have constant access to Oracle, but I'm not convinced that it's better to ban a card, effectively negating its existence, than it is to simply fix it. Particularly when the errata is in the original spirit of the card as, I would argue, was the case with Flash.
At the time Flash was printed, there weren't many creatures with ETB triggers at all and reading the original card to me feels like the designer's wanted to say "Choose a creature card in your hand. You may pay its mana cost reduced by up to 2. If you do, put that card into play. If you don't, put that card into your graveyard," but this was also before anyone figured out templating and so they printed it the first way it occurred to them to print. It's pretty clear that the intent of the card was to allow a player to cast a creature at instant speed with no extra mana cost and not to enable ETB/LTB shenanigans.
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Posted By:
WizardsFamiliar
(6/10/2011 11:03:47 AM)
Can someone please explain to me why this is good?
Lets say I have something big, like a terra stomper.
I cast flash, and use it to put the stomper on the field. This costs me two.
Now I have to pay 4, or else it dies immediately.
Total cost to play w/flash: 6
Regular Cost: 6
I can understand that it lets you block something, or get a "enters play effect," but besides that, its nothing special. Besides, we already have good stuff that lets us do the first two.
I see it as redundant.
Posted By:
God_Of_The_Smurfs
(2/21/2011 12:14:15 PM)
Still don't see why this card would be banned from Legacy. It's more or less giving you the possibility to play a Funeral Charm + Animate Dead. Perhaps it's broken because you cannot react on the come into play ability if you didn't pay 2?
This card would have made Reanimator decks playable again, since it allows you to avoid Extirpate, Deathrite Shaman or Relic of Progenitus.
Would be nice if the Wizards would explain why a card is banned.
Posted By:
Lord_Sauron
(12/12/2012 11:56:16 PM)
I don't understand the second sentence. "You may pay up to 2...If you don't sacrafice it" when they are talking about sacrafice, do they mean the creature you are summoning?
Posted By:
karlel1981
(6/25/2009 3:58:03 PM)
Unlike Aaron, I believe that giving Flash a new wording, Skullclamp a new mana cost, and so forth is exactly what should be done. The whole "cards should work exactly as printed" thing doesn't work anyway, because of nonsense like Castle, whose sixth-edition printing locked it in as working opposite how the original does with regard to Serra Angel and such. There's no hope of making every printed card work right, so I say you should make every card work right with respect to MODO and to tournaments where the participants can be reasonably expected to master the Oracle effects of all cards in their deck, and then let the casual crowd play every card as written unless their friends don't want them to. I understand the urge to have a definitional right answer even when it doesn't really matter, but I don't think it's a good urge or one that should be indulged to the extent it is.
@ God of the Smurfs: The entire original point of Flash was that you could block something, or more gener... (see all)
Posted By:
willpell
(7/11/2011 5:52:26 AM)
Stifle/Trickbind when it comes into play so you can reduce the mana cost and cap it at 3/4 cmc, respectively.
Posted By:
raptorman333
(12/2/2011 11:14:33 PM)
I get the card is amazing at all, but don't you think it is a little over-rated? I mean, its restricted in vintage and banned in legacy, where for one more mana, you can get a card that allows you to actually keep the card you dropped "for free": Show and Tell. Not only that, but that card lets you drop anything, not just creatures. It seems like it combos with anything with a high mana cost, rather than just hulk or something.
Now granted they have the potential to do the same back to you if you're not careful, so perhaps this is a bit better, but is it really that much better? Just wondering.
Posted By:
Noobian
(1/8/2013 5:11:52 PM)
since this is restricted
mystical tutor
Posted By:
ZirilanoftheClaw
(12/23/2010 9:04:00 AM)
This is so great with persist and citp abilities.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(12/27/2010 9:30:53 PM)
I prefer the not totally busted uses for this card.
Like pooping out big, fat persistent bastards.
It feels way more satisfying than dealing a bajillion damage, I assure you.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(1/1/2011 8:49:39 PM)