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CardName: Learn from Your Mistakes Cost: 1u Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Draw a card. *Memory* — Draw two cards instead if there are five or more cards in exile. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Madoka Magi-ka Uncommon

Learn from Your Mistakes
{1}{u}
 
 U 
Sorcery
Draw a card.
Memory — Draw two cards instead if there are five or more cards in exile.
Created on 18 Jun 2012 by Alexander

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2012-06-18 11:56:17: Alexander created the card Learn from Your Mistakes

I've been told cycling from hand is risky. This could very easily go infinite. But other stuff exists in this space already, so it's probably fine. Another solid use of memory.

@Vitenka "Cycling from hand" ...what? There's no cycling here. My idea was to make something similar to Accumulated Knowledge... not quite so strong, but 2 cards for 2 mana is better than Inspiration and this is at sorcery speed.

Its rules text could also be written:

Cycling {1}{u} - Memory - Draw a card. (Pay {1}{u}, discard ~, draw a card; if there are five or more cards in exile, draw an additional card.)

(I mean - don't write it that way; it's horrible - just showing the equivalence with cycling.)

Not saying it's a bad thing, as I said, other card draws exist. Just a thing to maybe be careful that it doesn't go horribly horribly infinite on you.

Spells that basically just do "draw a card" are commonly called cycling, even though the keyword isn't features in most sets. Cheap cycling effects can be dangerous, simply because the cost of putting them in a deck can be so cheap. But at 1U sorcery speed, I don't think this could be a problem.

Comparing this to Visions of Beyond makes me think this can cost just {u}, though of course, Visions of Beyond is a rare.

There are plenty of modern common cantrips (including one {pu} cantrip), so "{u}, draw a card" is fine (as instant or sorcery). The question is, how often will you achieve 5-threxhileold; if that's quite likely, then costing this at 1U is probably better, if that's quite rare, U is more interesting.

I imagine this would be fine at {u} sorcery. Or if you want it at {1}{u}, it'd probably be okay as an instant.

I think I'll leave it as is for now and when I get the whole set list finished this is going to be one of the cards I look at to see where the mana curve distribution needs to be smoothed out.

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