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CardName: Shocking Revalation Cost: 3UU Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: You may exile three red cards from your hand rather than pay Shocking Revalation's mana cost. Draw three cards. Flavour Text: "Perhaps the other researchers died, not because their work wasn't grounded, but because they themselves weren't grounded?!" Set/Rarity: Name That Card Uncommon |
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Today's card is a Blue card that does a very red thing if you instead pay the alternate cost and 'rummage' three red cards in your hand.
Oddly it's also an example of making a card worse by making it better. Originally this was supposed to be 'exile one red card and draw two.' But I figured that that was simply too good for some combo decks. But three red cards requires commitment, or luck.
Damn; Pyromancy is taken. And also shows mtg strongly prefers it to mean 'blow you up' rather than 'divine your future in the flames.
Burst of Insight
ETA: Oh, right, sorcery. Uh, "Surge of Insight"?
Firemind's Inquiry
Izzet Flamesight
Explosive Knowledge
Visions in the Fire
'And also shows mtg strongly prefers it to mean 'blow you up' rather than 'divine your future in the flames.'
True. I've never seen anyone use the word pyromancy for that type of magic, i've always heard them use Divination, or another similar word that focuses less on the flames themselves. I would call someone who does such a thing a Flame Seer, though.
Nope; technically all "mancy" are divinations. And yes, that includes necromancy.
Blowing people up should really be pyrurgy. Or maybe flambeau :)
But words change meanings over time, I guess.
Actually, I think I want to go a different route naming this card after all. Something like Think Again. Implying you can stop thinking those red thoughts and think nice wholesome blue ones instead. Except that would be better for a counterspell... Bleh.
"Antithemancy" or "Researcher's Antithemancy" (I gave some reasoning for this over on Warden's Antithemancy.
"Burning Question"
"Psychoburn"
"Burning Intellect"
"Fiery Genius"
Why does every red card have to be burning and fiery?
Explore the more nuanced red emotions.
"Clear Your Mind"
Art is a monk meditating and a goblin trying to imitate him, but there's smoke coming out of the goblin's ears because it's trying too hard to focus
This NTC has a lot of good suggestions!
Honestly, this one wasn't fair to the judge. Like Froggychum said, there were a lot of good answers. A lot of which I really liked.
The only reason I went with Shocking Revalations is because it meant something a little different, depending on how you cast the spell. I could imagine the art too: A wizard experimenter, just about to due something stupid with two arcing wires, suddenly realizing the danger he's in, inferring that he had a 'shocking realization' before he got a true 'shocking realization'.
But really, at least ten of these names could have easily been chosen, and they would have made perfect sense.
(((NTC #029))) in a couple of days.