i love this card i dont play blue with out four
Posted By:
spartan7023
(9/3/2012 1:07:18 PM)
I love this card. Efficient and always useful. The art and flavour text are also both great.
I hope that they'll reprint this card once Delver of Secrets and Miracles rotate.
Posted By:
SirZapdos
(11/27/2012 7:20:14 AM)
Am I crazy, or were this and Preordain Restricted in Modern not too long ago?
Posted By:
SnackyNorph
(12/7/2012 12:18:55 AM)
Arachibutyrophobia's comment explains why Ponder looks down, not up, on Preordain (which is an amazing card in itself).
Blue is insane. Blue for life.
Posted By:
TastetheJace
(2/14/2013 11:40:36 PM)
vampire nighthawk, meet your power creep twin in blue.
Posted By:
RDorothy
(3/3/2013 12:02:56 AM)
@Kryptnyt
Ponder is considered more powerful in Vintage entirely because of fetchlands allowing you to dig for more cards while also keeping what you want and getting rid of what you don't want, and also because of its interaction with Brainstorm (shuffling what you don't want). Preordain is a stronger card in most other situations.
Posted By:
DeaTh-ShiNoBi
(6/18/2013 6:50:13 PM)
@alblas I will admit that I never noticed the face till I saw your comment. That is amazing. Sometimes I notice things on cards that I haven't seen before too despite seeing it several times: ie. the reflection in the water in Twisted Image
Posted By:
Phelplan
(9/26/2013 11:17:42 PM)
ill admit it, i never realized this card was powerful enough to me modern and extended banned... vintage limited too...
Posted By:
Quotations
(1/31/2014 4:44:57 PM)
The obvious downside this has compared to preordain is that you have to either keep all 3 cards or lose all 3, whereas preordain lets you pick individually. Its the same reason Sage of Epityr needs help. It doesn't help that much to reorder the top few cards of your deck, you need to be able to take what you want and get rid of the rest.
This downside can be removed using other things to shuffle your library (like fetchlands). Just trigger the shuffle right before you start getting the cards you didn't want. Since these are pretty much necessary in some formats already, you can see why Ponder was too much for those formats.
Posted By:
jonrds
(3/20/2014 1:36:24 PM)
People complain about blue and complain about power-level:rarity ratio. How many of those mythics make it to legacy; let alone vintage. How many Blue 1-drop Commons control those formats?
Let Modern be a lessen to people: Even in a world of Cancel
Blue will find a way.
In a world of mediocre counterspells blue matches aggro with Snapcaster Lightning Bolt; matches combo/control with Remand and in the same breath hoses everyone with Spell Pierce while having reliable decks because of brutal-good cantrips.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(5/12/2014 9:47:46 AM)