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CardName: Now // Later Cost: {1}{R} // {U} Type: Instant // Instant Pow/Tgh: / // / Rules Text: Exile the top card of your library. Until the end of the turn, you may play that card. Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand. // Draw a card. Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Cards With No Home None |
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I get that split cards are supposed to have 2 effects, both weaker than the whole but this is kinda weak still.
The biggest comparisons I feel are to Light up the stage and Commune with lava to Now and Opt, Think Twice hell, even Hieroglyphic Illumination.
I feel that Now should continue the "Until the end of your next turn" clause or at a minimum "Until the beginning of the next end step" which is not as neat but it lets you use it during an opponents end step.
As for later? I feel it should do something else... Right now it feels like Kicker
: Draw a card. In fact this card is just kinda draw 2 for 
which would be strong with any of the aforementioned changes to Now but there's design space under the title "Later" which isn't being explored here.
Why not an unsummon for
? Or maybe Delay but with 1 or 2 time counters? Maybe Reflector Mage?
First of all: I like this card. I would play this card. Izaac's blues over power level seems to ignore that this card's fused power level is already on par with Divination (Now is more restrictive than drawing a card, but this is an instant so it has more versatility.) Add the fact that the card has "Cycling
", and you got a solid card.
That said, there are two things that bother me here.
Unless I'm missing something, drawing a card is more powerful than impulsing a card. I can't figure out why you would make Later the cheaper option... especially since with a Now cost of
, you might be able to sneak out a Shock, which would be exciting. As it is right now, you're better off Later-ing a Shock, then casting it. As printed, a person would only ever use Now by itself if they were mana screwed.
That blue ability could have been "Scry 3". As strong as the card is now, the idea of Scrying 3 first, then Impulsing the top just sounds like gravy. Unfortunately, the name doesn't work anymore, because the card would have to be "Later // Now". Ah well. I'm sure scry then impulse is already on some number of cards I can't currently think of anyways.
I'll have to agree. Later isn't really "later". It'S "now and later" all inone since you can immediately play a drawn card. Maybe you want to use the Necropotence text that actually delays putting the cards into your hand until a later point if time on the Later half of the split card.
I really feel like Later should be scrying or some other sort of planning.