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CardName: Memory Flitter Cost: UU Type: Creature - Illusion Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Rules Text: Flying {1}{U}{U}, Put Memory Flitter on top of its owner's library library: At the beginning of the next end step, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Rare

Memory Flitter
{u}{u}
 
 R 
Creature – Illusion
Flying
{1}{u}{u}, Put Memory Flitter on top of its owner's library library: At the beginning of the next end step, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
2/1
Updated on 16 May 2012 by Link

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2012-02-16 01:50:48: Link created the card Memory Flitter
2012-02-16 01:51:18: Link edited Memory Flitter

Hee-hee-hee. Funky. Possibly not even broken, because you need some good frobbling to get Emrakul or Darksteel Colossus on top of your library at the right time. Perhaps a bit swingy, though: "Will it be an Island, a Counterspell, or Emrakul?"

Most often, it will be this, unless you shuffle your library or otherwise reorganize it somehow.

Well, yes. But the most common category of things that could change that would be looters and similar.

Actually, as currently phrased, activating this on someone else's turn (e.g. when this is blocking) would lead to you drawing this and then getting the effect on something else. Perhaps it should trigger in any end step, not just yours?

Oh, that's a good point. It probably should.

2012-02-16 17:10:57: Link edited Memory Flitter
2012-05-15 17:50:47: Link edited Memory Flitter:

Realized it didn't need "under your control."

2012-05-16 03:43:56: Link edited Memory Flitter:

Otherwise.

Well... that's still buggy, since you can activate this during your opponent's end step after "the beginning of the end step" is over, right? So, I'd just activate this whenever I had {u}{u} open during an end step. Who needs instants and sorceries when you're packing cards like this anyhow?

Maybe the correct fix would be to change this to "The next time you would draw a card, reveal it. If it's a permanent, put it on the battlefield and draw a card." Granted, that's a different ability, but it also makes you work a little harder to trigger the Flitterer. Ponder won't do it anymore, since you'll just end up drawing the Flitterer, triggering the ability. You got to mill, rearrange or exile... and two of those options permanently gets rid of the Illusion...

Actually, you could activate the ability multiple times in a row, while previous instances are on the stack. Then, say you paid 10 {u}: you could put five cards onto the battlefield/into your hand.

Ew, dude1818. You're right.

jmgariepy... maybe I'll up the cost?

2012-05-16 04:24:37: Link edited Memory Flitter

I hate to be a bug in the ointment, but I consider 'any card that requires you to know how to stack end turn triggers to get the most effect out of it' to be a failed design, no matter the cost. Though, I will admit that if you can only put this card on your "library library", then you'll only get to use the ability once, until you play a card that allows you to draw cards from your library library. ;)

I know I'm only teasing you, but now I wish there was a library library. Bonus libraries? Magic doesn't have enough zones. We need to make another one!

Clearly you haven't hit up the Generator for enough cards that get +6/+4 and can't block as long as you control an untapped legendary library.

So that's what the 'Legendary Library' is? Sweet!

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