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CardName: Preserve Cost: 2W Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Each player puts an artifact card from his or her graveyard onto the battlefield. Flavour Text: New Phyrexia is chock full of priceless treasures, waiting just below its grimy surface. Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Alpha Uncommon

Preserve
{2}{w}
 
 U 
Sorcery
Each player puts an artifact card from his or her graveyard onto the battlefield.
New Phyrexia is chock full of priceless treasures, waiting just below its grimy surface.
Updated on 06 Jun 2013 by jmgariepy

Code: UW09

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2012-07-26 03:56:07: jmgariepy created the card Preserve

I'm looking to further establish some of the themes in the set. White has a "White Machine" theme running through it, so I added "Artifacts Matter, in white" and spun the random generator, which gave me Scrounge, oddly.

But, you know, I really like this card. It does something white, then it does something white (returns artifacts from graveyard to play, then asks if the opponent wants to do it as well, just to be fair). Not bad for a color-shifted Exhume. What's better is that white is rarely invested in destroying artifacts. It's more likely to Oblivion Ring them nowadays, and could always exile them, like in Altar's Light. So, unlike Exhume, you're more likely to just get a cheap Argivian Restoration out of the deal.

2012-07-26 04:01:53: jmgariepy edited Preserve

I like this one. Nice and simple. White's had artifact recursion since antiquities, and it needs a bit of spit and polish. A seemingly symmetrical (but not really, because hey, I've got artifacts and you don't) card like this is just perfect.

Yeah, this is a very nice design.

busted OP since you can build your deck around getting hard locks into play to easily with artifacts :(

Will probably be fine in set, which is more what I'm interested in. I admit that this card definitely couldn't be printed within five years of Innistrad, though... :s

Innistrad, or Scars of Mirrodin? Even so, this is just a oneoff; it doesn't look broken to me. (I could see it gaining a mana in development due to the easy way you can build your deck to break the symmetry.)

2013-06-06 11:07:32: jmgariepy edited Preserve

Let's be honest with ourselves. It probably requires that colorless. I'm adding it... the card has plenty of opportunities in set anyway, since white is the artifact color. I'm sure it will be played and appreciated.

It's always a pity when you have to increase the price of a colourshift. (See also Frantic Salvage vs Footbottom Feast.) But Exhume probably wouldn't be printed at that price if it were being designed new today. So yeah, it's probably safer and saner this way.

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