Possibly my favorite card ever printed. It's basically 2 CMC to speed the game up by 10 minutes. It doesn't get much better than that.
Posted By:
lebanen01
(1/8/2013 9:26:37 AM)
Sun Titan has all the time in the world. Also, this card is why Ancestral Vision never sees play in Legacy.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(2/11/2013 12:41:36 PM)
I play a blue-green deck running this guy, while my wife runs a red-white.
In THG I bounce permanents and lay board trickery, she lays creature upon creature and once board control is established I kindly give them the option to allow us continued board control, or to draw more cards.
It's a filthy, dirty trick and it's brought her and I ever closer together.
Posted By:
DaveKT
(3/28/2013 2:30:17 PM)
Recommendation: Always immediately play into this unless you have board advantage.
I usually try to lay down an early beater to either pressure the person who played this into casting a spell or I understand that since they laid it down early you often just play into it while they can't counter and may have to discard. If they're playing it later game it's usually lose-lose for you.
Playing *with* the card I'd probably try to get my own beater down, lay this down, and force them into using removal or giving me my cards. If your deck plays enough cards fast enough you won't over-fill your hand and will be in a dominant position.
Thusly seems best-with and worst-against aggro.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(4/26/2013 10:10:52 AM)
Be a little careful with this. If your opponent casts something you REALLY don't want them getting, you can't counter it without giving THEM the cards!
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(7/19/2013 5:21:34 PM)
So Notion Thief, then drop that baby no matter what, you draw 3x number of opponents.
Posted By:
Jiverman7
(9/16/2013 2:28:08 PM)
I love this card.
Even if you're control, you can feel safe tapping out to play this card, because it is a deterrent, and if they do cast something even though this is on the board, then they're just filling your hand with answers to it.
I've even used this card to win 2 seperate games before. On those occasions, I milled my opponent down to the last few cards in their deck, before playing this and something else to make them draw out.
Posted By:
Xycolian
(10/2/2013 4:07:45 AM)
If u have at least one decent attacker or manland ie. mutavault, over your opponent than this card is an auto three cards for the caster....there's something really great about being able to draw the counterspell... that counters the spell... that triggered standstill lol.
Posted By:
Aldonius
(1/23/2014 6:05:49 PM)
Sun Titan loves this, and that sort of UW deck just crafts itself... Sun Titan, Phantasmal Image, Standstill, O-Ring/Detention Sphere, perhaps Jace Beleren - personally, I've also got Mother of Runes, Wall of Omens and Flooded Strand in there as further potential Sun Titan targets, and I run a playset of Karmic Guide as they also work somewhat well with Phantasmal Image, and provide a way to get back real Sun Titans.
In any case, there's something brilliant about going Sun Titan > Phantasmal Image > Phantasmal Image > Standstill. Oh hey, 3 6/6 vig with an awesome on-attack trigger and an almost guaranteed 3 cards drawn? Sure, I'll take that.
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(1/28/2014 5:46:42 AM)
I love this card in my EDH deck.
As mentioned, Notion Thief + this is a great card advantage.
Play this early, then play Windafll... each other player draws 3, but then they disaccord their hand, and you get the same number of cards as they have.
Once, I managed to play this, then Windfall... and after the sac and draw, I flashed in Notion Thief before the Windfall resolved. - Thankefully, I had Library of Leng out.
Posted By:
Rayenous
(2/27/2014 6:21:56 AM)