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CardName: Memory's Echo Cost: 3W Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Whenever a permanent is exiled, its controller may pay {2}. If he or she does, he or she puts a copy of that permanent onto the battlefield, except that it's a colorless enchantment with no name and no other types. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Rare

Memory's Echo

Enchantment

Whenever a permanent is exiled, its controller may pay {2}

. If he or she does, he or she puts a copy of that permanent onto the battlefield, except that it's a colorless enchantment with no name and no other types.

Created on 04 Mar 2012 by Link

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2012-03-04 21:43:57: Link created the card Memory's Echo

by Link:

You know, I feel like this could have a place in the Community Set.

by Link:

Also, is "no other types" necessary?

by Mandroid:

Well that would mean that creatures are no longer creatures when the come back with your current wording. I don't know if that actually matters as far as the rules regarding creatures (attacking, blocking, ect) are concerned, but something to think about.

by Link:

Well, the point would be that you'd have enchantments that stuck around and got to use the abilities of the missing permanents. I forgot that removing a creature's type doesn't remove its power and toughness... so you'd have a random enchantment with power and toughness. Hmm.

by Alex:

I believe removing type creature does remove power and toughness. Yeah, I agree this fits the Community Set in theme. It's a very weird card. Goes somewhat insane with Mangara of Corondor and other cards which exile themselves to pay some particularly steep cost such as Planar Guide. Hilarious with Ring of Ma'Ruf, and quite scary with Relic of Progenitus!

Also goes quite odd with things that flicker themselves... most things like Flickering Spirit are somewhat pointless, but Sengir Nosferatu works pretty well, and Ghost Council of Orzhova works very well, especially as the tokens have no name.

And yet, in all these cases, the cost of {2} that you wisely put on there means that it's not really broken. Just fun in a Johnny kind of way.

(Okay, it is somewhat broken with Mangara of Corondor. But so were many untap effects, as I exploited in a casual MTGO deck at the time.)

by Jack V:

Yeah, seems a good fit for the community set. It's "puts a copy of that permanent onto the battlefield, except that it's a colorless enchantment with no name and no other types" that I find interesting, the current implementation may be the best, but it might be something else.

by Link:

I find it fun that this can make Planeswalker tokens that don't fret about another version of themselves popping up. Maybe that's dangerous, though. I think allowing any player to do it somewhat balances it, but obviously the deck playing this is going to include more combos.

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