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CardName: Clash with the Elusi Cost: 1U Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: Rules Text: Put the top card of each player's library into that player's graveyard. If a land card was put into a graveyard this way, return Clash with the Elusi to its owner's hand. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Sienira's Facets Uncommon

Clash with the Elusi
{1}{u}
 
 U 
Instant
Put the top card of each player's library into that player's graveyard. If a land card was put into a graveyard this way, return Clash with the Elusi to its owner's hand.
Updated on 18 Feb 2016

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The template on this is nasty, perhaps irredeemably so. First, it probably wants to reveal the cards and check what they are before sending them all to the graveyard, but that would conflict with the "draw a card" ability. Second, the Rogue ability refers to "that player" in slightly confusing context; "that opponent" would be clearer. Third, causing another group of cards to be revealed confuses the antecedent for "them" in the next two abilities.

Good points, well made. I fear this and its black mirror need junking and replacing.

Old wording was: Choose target opponent. Put the top five cards of your library into your graveyard. For each Rogue card among them, that player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. If there was an instant card among them, draw a card. If there was a land card among them, return ~ to its owner's hand.

2010-11-15 18:43:22: someone edited Clash with the Elusi

New wording accomplishes most of the same things - enabling a mill strategy, being a self-buyback instant - but with far less wordiness and confusion.

Thing is, I think the Elusi would plan better than this. Would it break to have "Scry 2 (or even 1)" first?

I don't think it'd break, but I'm trying hard not to include keyword abilities that aren't evergreen, and scry isn't (it was just temporarily brought back for M11). This way invites combination with some other effects (hmm, a Wizened Snitches reprint or similar wouldn't go amiss in the set). And the old way didn't do much planning either. I had been thinking of making this an enchantment, but I'd rather not reduce the blue instants without good reason.

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