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CardName: Mirror of the Pale Moon Cost: 2WU Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: When Mirror of the Pale Moon enters the battlefield, the owner of another target nontoken permanent shuffles it into his or her library. When Mirror of the Pale Moon leaves the battlefield, that player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a card with the same name as that card. That player puts that card onto the battlefield, then puts all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Rare
Mirror of the Pale Moon
   When Mirror of the Pale Moon enters the battlefield, the owner of another target nontoken permanent shuffles it into his or her library.
When Mirror of the Pale Moon leaves the battlefield, that player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a card with the same name as that card. That player puts that card onto the battlefield, then puts all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard. |
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I haven't made a card in a while...
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Anyway, this has a ton of words. Maybe I'll get rid of the milling element, since it doesn't seem too
What an awesome mechanic Innistrad left us with, though. When are they going to put two and two together and make a card where the less cards you reveal before you put this in your hand, the more powerful the effect. Something like:
Shuffle ~ into its owner's library, then reveal cards from the top of that player's library until ~ is revealed.
Deal 13-X damage to target creature, where X is equal to the number of cards revealed in this manner. Shuffle your library.
Yeah, this was definitely inspired by Mirror-Mad Phantasm.
Have you seen Noel's Thursday article on the Phantasm? He's got a combo deck that gains control of your opponent's creature, turns it into a copy of your own Phantasm, and then activates the ability. The copy of the phantasm goes back to it's owner's library, then that player mills their library until they find a Mirror-Mad Phantasm. Classy.
Should this card say "another target permanent"? Otherwise it's an arbitrarily scalable amount of self-mill with a lot of shuffling mixed in.
This should probably say "nontoken" somewhere. Not too many tokens even have the same name as a card, let alone a card their owner is likely to be playing, so that just makes it too easy.
Points taken.
Fixed things according to suggestion, though I'm still thinking it's not really a valid card due to how many words it takes.
Yeah... this has basically ended up as "O-Ring into deck" with some random milling tacked on when it leaves. Pity, because there's definitely some interesting potential in the mechanic.
That's what it was intended to be. It would be fewer words without the milling, but not a ton fewer.