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CardName: Slave Auction Cost: XB Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Look at target player's hand. You may cast a creature card from it with converted mana cost X or less without paying its mana cost. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Set Uncommon

Slave Auction
{x}{b}
 
 U 
Sorcery
Look at target player's hand. You may cast a creature card from it with converted mana cost X or less without paying its mana cost.
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Created on 16 Feb 2012 by Jack V

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2012-02-16 14:15:11: Jack V created the card Slave Auction
on 16 Feb 2012 by Jack V:

Inspired by link's comment of looking for mechanics that represent a slavery theme, without worrying about an overall mechanical identity yet.

on 16 Feb 2012 by Alex:

Nice idea. Sadly works best if you've got more mana than the opponent, which will usually mean if they're manascrewed. But nice idea nonetheless.

on 16 Feb 2012 by Vitenka:

Mmm, yeah, probably actually useful to keep them missing drops behind the curve; but then that's kinda a black thing anyway.

And black historically got "Make your opponent cast spells" rather than blue..

I like it - but it needs something doing to it; because right now, if this is my opponents 2 drop, and then having seen my hand they hit my next three creatures with it... I'm not going to be happy; or able to do anything about it.

(And were I to worship at the altar of card advantage; this is at least as good as 'opponent discards TWO cards' which costs a bit more than this.

on 16 Feb 2012 by Jack V:

"if this is my opponents 2 drop, and then having seen my hand they hit my next three creatures with it... I'm not going to be happy; or able to do anything about it."

Yeah, but lots and lots of cards are broken if you draw four of them in your opening hand :)

"this is at least as good as 'opponent discards TWO cards' which costs a bit more than this."

I agree with Alex that if you can pick off the creature your opponent was about to play, this could be very very annoying, so the cost/rarity/effect may well need tweaking a bit. But I'm not sure the cost is inherently too little: Mind Rot is the archetypal "2B. Common. Discard two." If you play this for 2B you get to steal a 2-drop, which is probably better than mind rot, but not lots better. You can play it for 1B, but very often you'll miss a one-drop and the spell will be wasted, or get a weak 1-drop.

on 17 Feb 2012 by jmgariepy:

I like it, but it probably will create a lot of unfun scenarios. Would it be better if it cost {x}{1}{b}, always exiled a creature, and gave you the ability to cast it if X? Or is that too far from source?

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