Welcome back. This week, we have a card that lets you replace spells you cast with another random spell. Don't like what you get? Maybe you can do it again!

NTC#6 chooses a face down card at random so you don't have to memorize which face-down card is which (if you knew what the top card of your library was at one point.) I thought about having an out against counterspells, since, if the spell on the stack gets countered before your ability goes off, then the ability itself is countered. But then it occurred to me that there's really no harm or foul. If the ability is countered, then the card is never turned face up and hence isn't wasted. No big whoop. In fact, if you have the mana ready, you can just respond to the counter by activating NTC#6 again.

Of note: This card has been designated for Mythic status. That may reflect how you name the card. Have at it!

Huh. So you can pay 2 extra to cast something different. Something random; unless you've manipulated the top of your deck a lot. And... if you have the mana, you can just keep re-randomising. So it's less random than it looks. It works well with something cheap that keeps coming back from the graveyard... to you hand. Huh; fewer of those than I thought; most go straight back into play. Even the original nether spirit. This is surprisingly hard to abuse.

But you have to sacrifice your own spells to this. So it's more of a polymorph than anything. This is... something that contains some random books from your library, and then eats your memories to give them back. What contains bits of library? Oh... what's the word for the little minature libraries the victorian era was proud of? ... Ugh. "Miniatures" appears to be it; that's not a term I can make much use of. And there's no obvious name for a collection of them; and a locket containing them is just a book locket. I'm sure there was a name for a travellers library. .... "Travelling bookcase". Damn it victorians; you have such boring words. I want something on a par with "Gallavanting Orrery", but you just give me rubbish. Fine; we'll call it that. You tend to keep your orrery in a library. This one just happens to sometimes eat the books and follows you around smacking you with them when you're trying to concentrate on other things. It's like the luggage, only made of brass planets.

I feel you Vitenka, words should often have cooler names, but they don't.

Hm... all aboard the Froggytrain of Thoughtchum...

I looked up synonyms for random and found aimless.. which makes me think of perhaps a machine (i mean, it is an artifact) that selects something to shoot at random and just does that... It also would be pretty easy to clog, hence why lands just fall out and are put OTB, (ie mud being shoved in the system by a 5yo and wastes the turn).

(side note i forgot until now: I don't know why you'd ever play this though, because you normally know what you cast, why replace it with something random? So ill probably incorporate that into the name, or maybe not in case i miss something and then the name is worthless'd)

So Aimless... what? Well, it's easy to activate, so not much harder than pulling a stiff lever.... It also takes two steps to function and the top one takes a whole 'turn'....

What would that first action be? I guess preparing a spell? Or maybe something to do with the environment, since I get the idea this is more of a dispenser.... Ooh, actually, that's good enough.

Aimless Dispenser or perhaps Magic Dispenser. (Maybe even Spell Dispenser)

So i never really got to the bottom of what this object does, but i guess if i cut some corners of thought we could say it just lets you load a spell from something and then dispense more than one at a later time. That means the lever would not stick at the bottom, but would go back up when pulled (like a slot machine ? ive never gambled , but i assume it doesnt make you pull it back up). that's very specific but it gives you an idea so yahoo!

Anyway, if I can only pick one name, I'll go with the former because I explained it, but I'm perhaps more fond of the second or third idk.

Is the exile bit actually useful as opposed to just "2: Counter target spell. BLAH the top card of your library"? Does that prevent shenanigans somehow?

Maybe Spellmorph Stone? Or Wild Magic Altar?

I like Orrey. Reciprocating Orrey?

Twisted portal?

Disorganised Spellbook?

It's difficult to name this precisely without knowing it's cost. I'd go with something physically larger if it costs a lot to cast, and something smaller if it's cheap.

I suppose that's the fun though. Mine kind of assumes it's around to mana, just because I can't see a Dispenser (as in slot-machine or vending machine sized ) being worth less than that.

Though this could probably cost or ... so I'm a big fan of Spellmorph Stone... in fact, lots of Jack's ideas work well.

@Jack: It's a fair question. Technically, it prevents a person from ramming through a deck if they have a lot of mana open to hunt for their combo piece. But if you're paying 9 mana per turn, maybe it's okay to smash through four cards at a time.

Either way, it's unfair for me to change attributes about the card after I submit it, unless the card doesn't functionally work without the changes. So right or wrong, it's what we're going with for now.

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Gave this one to Vitenka. I just couldn't get idea of an Orrery trekking along throughout the countryside as if it didn't have a care in the world. I really liked dispenser, though. For a hot second, I thought about calling this Galavanting Dispenser... but that didn't seem fair. Besides, an option like that should only be saved for special occasions. Otherwise, I'm just going to mix and match people's suggestions willy-nilly.

On to (((Name That Card #007)))!