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CardName: Phosphour Bolt Cost: 1R Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Fourcast (If there are four cards called Phosphour Bolt in your graveyard, you may return them to your hand.) Phosphour Bolt deals 4 damage to target creature or player. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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Challenge # 065
Solid and Sold!
Niiice!
Oh, wow. Self mill yourself, setting yourself up for 16 points of damage in your hand guaranteed. I love the idea.
...Actually, as currently written, this will never pay out without help from ______ (or in draft). Because the ability is part of the spell's resolution, while it's still on the stack, but it's counting cards in the graveyard.
Doh. Well, reminder text isn't always rules-complete :)
This was intended to be an ability that functions from the graveyard, a la recover (although it may be too good to have it just always happen automatically). What determines when a clause is part of the effect, and when it's an ability functioning from another zone?
Really? Why can't sorceries have abilities which function from the graveyard?
EDIT: Bah, ninjas.
Oh, I see. Um. Chronosavant works because the ability specifically expects to find the card with it in the graveyard.
How about:
> Fourcast (When this card is in your graveyard along with three other cards named ~, return them all to your hand.)
Although that loses the fourness from the reminder text... Trying again:
> Fourcast (When there are four cards named ~ in your graveyard, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
It might also be clearer if it was at the end of the rules text rather than the beginning.