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CardName: Animate Spell Cost: 1uu Type: Enchantment - Aura Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Flash. Enchant instant or sorcery spell that is a card. Enchanted spell's controller manifests it as it resolves. When they do, Animate Spell loses "enchant instant or sorcery spell" and gains "enchant permanent put into the battlefield with Animate Spell"; attach it to that manifested permanent. Sacrifice Animate Spell: you may cast the enchanted permanent from the battlefield. If you don't, put it in its owner's graveyard if it is on the battlefield. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Frightful Desperation None

Animate Spell
{1}{u}{u}
 
Enchantment – Aura
Flash.

Enchant instant or sorcery spell that is a card.

Enchanted spell's controller manifests it as it resolves. When they do, Animate Spell loses "enchant instant or sorcery spell" and gains "enchant permanent put into the battlefield with Animate Spell"; attach it to that manifested permanent.

Sacrifice Animate Spell: you may cast the enchanted permanent from the battlefield. If you don't, put it in its owner's graveyard if it is on the battlefield.
Updated on 10 Apr 2022 by Ombra

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2022-04-09 20:51:59: Ombra created and commented on the card Animate Spell

The enchant line is supposed to read "instant or sorcery (spell or permanent)", not "(instant or sorcery spell) or permanent" - this makes sense since this is supposed to generate a permanent that is also an instant or sorcery; I don't know if that need rephrasing.

I do know that it doesn't actually work as far as the rules go (in particular this conflicts with 110.4, comma 2 ["instant and sorcery cards can’t enter the battlefield and thus can’t be permanents"], though I guess the line "it ETBs as it resolves" may overwrite it perhaps?). What I'm ever more concerned about is that I'm not sure this thing would actually stick to the instant/sorcery it enchants as it changes zone when it resolves

2022-04-09 20:53:13: Ombra edited Animate Spell
2022-04-09 21:30:21: Ombra edited Animate Spell:

slightly reworded the last ability

2022-04-10 13:04:16: Ombra edited Animate Spell:

Added the phrase "and you attach ~ to it"

2022-04-10 13:23:34: Ombra edited Animate Spell

You can't have an (instant or sorcery) permanent. By definition, instants and sorceries are non-permanents. It probably breaks a lot of things to allow them on the battlefield. This is a compelling concept, but you're better off exiling the spell and making a token

2022-04-10 19:29:58: Ombra edited Animate Spell:

It no longer tries to make a sorcery/instant permanent; instaed it manifests the sorcery/instant card.

Tried reworking it so that it manifests the spell card (I'd rather not having it work by exiling things if at all possible); though rationally making it generate a token would likely work better mechanically -- also perhaps making it an instant instead of an Aura, something like

when target instant or sorcery spell resolves, exile it and its controller creates a 2/2 Elemental creature token with "sacrifice this permanent: you may cast the exiled card; if you don't, put it in its owner's graveyard".

(but this, other than working a bit differently, does feel to me a bit of a flavor fail)

2022-04-10 20:02:36: Ombra edited Animate Spell
2022-04-10 20:03:02: Ombra edited Animate Spell:

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