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CardName: Treasured Prince Cost: W Type: Creature - Human Pow/Tgh: 0/2 Rules Text: Treasured (If you would search your library for a single card and this card is in your library, you may find this card instead.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Common

Treasured Prince
{w}
 
 C 
Creature – Human
Treasured (If you would search your library for a single card and this card is in your library, you may find this card instead.)
0/2
Updated on 01 Sep 2011 by Link

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2011-08-31 04:43:58: Link created the card Treasured Prince

My mind was meandering between abilities that activated from the library and cards that let you find them when you shouldn't. I remembered something from the GDS2 about triggered abilities not working from the library, so I thought this up instead. It doesn't work within the rules, I think, but it's interesting, right?
Alternately, I guess it could be "As long as ~ is in your library, it has all card types, creature types, and names," but that has its own set of issues.

2011-08-31 04:46:40: Link edited Treasured Prince:

Reworded slightly.

The first card that springs to mind that causes issues with this is Arachnus Spinner, but I'm sure there are loads more.

I think this does work, actually. It's similar to Panglacial Wurm. (Possibly it might need to say "you may find this card instead".) This is fun to get with Terramorphic Expanse, although not really worth it on turn 1. I think you could get away with a 0/1 Llanowar Elves with Treasured (perhaps at 2 mana), which would be an interesting choice to fetch with an Expanse.

It's possible there are rules issues with some cases, but OTTOMH I can't think of any. Arachnus Spinner will try to put this OTB attached, but it'll fall off immediately and just sit there as a 0/2. Hunting Wilds is fine too: this isn't a Forest so the second half will never apply.

Hmm. Okay. If it works, I really want to play around with it.
I could have sworn someone submitted GDS2 designs that didn't work because they triggered while searching the library. Am I wrong?

You may well be right. I don't remember that specifically, and I did follow the GDS2 quite closely, but it was a little while ago and I don't recall it all. It'd be interesting to see the specific mechanic that had problems to see whether this is different enough or not.

Oh, I think this is quite different. I think the GDS2 variant was like forecast from library. I'm possibly wrong, though.

2011-09-01 12:44:59: Link edited Treasured Prince

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