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CardName: Fire Thinker Cost: 3r Type: Creature - Witch Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Rules Text: {T}: Fire Thinker deals 1 damage to target creature or player. *Memory* — {T}: Fire Thinker deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Activate this ability only if there are five or more cards in exile. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Madoka Magi-ka Common

Fire Thinker
{3}{r}
 
 C 
Creature – Witch
{t}: Fire Thinker deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
Memory{t}: Fire Thinker deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Activate this ability only if there are five or more cards in exile.
2/1
Updated on 18 Jun 2012 by Alexander

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2012-06-18 11:58:28: Alexander created the card Fire Thinker

This feels spot on to tell me "Exile matters" Simple ability, that gets more powerful when stuff is in exile, and correspondingly slightly more powerful and higher priced than the obvious Prodigal Pyromancer equivalent.

It's a shame the abilties can't be condensed together slightly, to make the card less wordier; but I think they end up more confusing if you do.

Tiny tiny quibble, I think the official template is "activate this ability only" not "play"; but the meaning is perfectly clear.

It could be "Memory - {t} blah blah (~ has the ability only if blah)" perhaps? I'm not sure that's any nicer though.

2012-06-18 12:07:39: Alexander edited Fire Thinker:

Changed "play" to "activate"

Yeah, you can tell who the old-school Magic players are because we still have trouble remembering "comes into play" is now "enters the battlefield" and a lot of other old wordings.

@Vitenka Thanks for catching that.

The old version of Memory was much less streamlined and was counting any random number of cards and card types in exile, so I changed it to something more like Threshold or Metalcraft that is a more concrete number.

Well, I resemble that remark - I was a hairs breadth from complaining this ought to be blue for the even more obvious prodigal :)

Anyway. Like the card, like the simpler implementation of memory (and it fits with metalcraft) and generally think this is a pretty good common for enforcing a theme.

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