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CardName: Necrogen Portal Cost: 5BBB Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Skip your beginning phase (Skip your untap, upkeep and draw steps). At the beginning of your end step, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, untap that many permanents you control. Pay 1 life: Draw a card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Workbench Mythic

Necrogen Portal
{5}{b}{b}{b}
 
 M 
Enchantment
Skip your beginning phase (Skip your untap, upkeep and draw steps).
At the beginning of your end step, you may discard any number of cards. If you do, untap that many permanents you control.
Pay 1 life: Draw a card.
Created on 05 Aug 2012 by jmgariepy

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2012-08-05 05:45:49: jmgariepy created the card Necrogen Portal
2012-08-05 05:45:58: jmgariepy moved the card Necrogen Portal from Mashup: the Gathering Alpha into Mashup: the Gathering Workbench

Random Generator gave me Necro-Impotence and Possessed Portal. Sometimes I just tinker with a card until I find something I like, then find out that I'm not really near the source cards. Obviously, the Necro part is noticeable here... But Possessed Portal Seems very far away. Making it an 8-cost artifact, or adding something about each player sacrificing something would help, but I like where the card is. It's tough to nudge a card once you like it.

Also, strangely, I already got 2 black mythics (and one in the workbench). It's, like, the least needed color/rarity. So this card goes in the workbench. After the fact, I know think I should have found a way to make this card red so that it could hit the set. Maybe I will tomorrow. I'm sure those two cards can make something very different.

Nice effect. Could probably be a lot cheaper: 5 mana or less.

It's tricky. Not counting the untap thingy, this is roughly Yawgmoth's Bargain. When Bargain was around, you didn't really care about your untap step; You were going to win the turn you played it.

To be fair, that's 100% because Skirge Familiar is super broken. I don't think we print cards like that nowadays, and I think the untap thingy is rather restrictive. I can't imagine this being fair and costing less than 6, though. Cards similar to Vitalize or Early Harvest alone make me think that the untap restriction is only a restriction for the casual player.

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