Onar, Titans' Dominions: Cardlist | Visual spoiler | Export | Booster | Comments | Search | Recent activity |
Mechanics | Skeleton | The Plane of Onar |
CardName: Jendayi's Botched Lesson Cost: 1B Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: The next time a card would leave a graveyard this turn, exile that card instead. If a creature card was exiled this way, create 2/2 Black zombie token. Otherwise, that card's controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Flavour Text: "Life and death is a circle, so please don't spellcraft straight lines." Set/Rarity: Onar, Titans' Dominions Common |
History: [-] Add your comments: |
This looks weird and super niche. Off the top of my head it doesn't look like it'd work against most graveyard mechanics like unearth, flashback, retrace or encore: they either cast the spell in response to this, or this works to delay them casting the spell by one turn. So I went looking in the set for things that interact with it.
Okay, so although this doesn't work against things which move the card out of the graveyard as a cost, like flashback and similar, it is fairly good against "return card X from your graveyard" spells, and the set does have quite a few of those.
I still feel this would be better as a Cling to Dust effect. That lets it hit Gut-Muck Goblin and the others where it's currently less effective. But it's not quite as niche as I had thought.
"would leave a graveyard this turn, exile that card..." ?
Updated to what jmgariepy said.
@Alex- An outright, more proactive ability would be simpler. Unfortunately, I don't think the current effects of the card would fit well with a proactive form, as it was designed around being reactive. Should appropriate effects come to mind later for a proactive version, I may make this card like Cling to Dust.