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CardName: Haunting Vision Cost: 2U Type: Creature - Illusion Pow/Tgh: 0/4 Rules Text: Reveal each card you draw. Whenever you reveal a creature card this way, put an art counter on Haunting Vision. Then if Haunting Vision has three or more art counters on it, remove those counters and transform it. Flavour Text: "You have given me this power, but have forbidden me yourself." --Ixidor, reality sculptor Back side: CardName: Akroma, Exquisite Ideal Cost: Type: Legendary Creature - Angel Pow/Tgh: 6/6 Rules Text: Flying, protection from red and from green {U}{U}: Akroma, Exquisite Ideal phases out. (It stays this side up when it phases in.) {1}: Akroma gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn. Flavour Text: "I am your protector...your strong right arm." Set/Rarity: SM Serious Card Dump Rare

Haunting Vision
{2}{u}
 
 R 
Creature – Illusion
Reveal each card you draw. Whenever you reveal a creature card this way, put an art counter on Haunting Vision. Then if Haunting Vision has three or more art counters on it, remove those counters and transform it.
"You have given me this power, but have forbidden me yourself."
--Ixidor, reality sculptor
0/4
Akroma, Exquisite Ideal
 
 R 
Colour indicator U Legendary Creature – Angel
Flying, protection from red and from green
{u}{u}: Akroma, Exquisite Ideal phases out. (It stays this side up when it phases in.)
{1}: Akroma gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.
"I am your protector...your strong right arm."
6/6
Updated on 18 Feb 2016 by Alex

History: [-]

2011-01-05 01:13:35: SadisticMystic created the card Haunting Vision

The idea behind this card was for it to be an Akroma card designed from Ixidor's point of view. The unflipped side has remained untouched since early 2007, and I was worried about the possible power ramifications of a 6/6 for 3, until they printed Quest for Ula's Temple which validated the whole thing.

The flip side, on the other hand, took a while to come up with something as exquisite and ideal as the card is supposed to represent, but looking back to some old iconic blue creatures from an era where blue was explicitly designed to be bad at creatures, I found some suitable abilities.

2011-01-05 20:29:27: SadisticMystic edited Haunting Vision
2011-07-17 01:28:58: SadisticMystic edited Haunting Vision:

finally the flip card she deserves

2011-07-17 04:44:27: SadisticMystic edited Haunting Vision

Flip cards and transform cards have a large amount of design overlap, but this one in particular would be better suited to the transform template if we ever got that.

(Part of it has to do with the layout on this card still being extremely messed up in my browser.)

2012-01-12 10:38:27: SadisticMystic edited Haunting Vision:

finis

Oh. Why hello there Burning Inquiry! Want to help me make an Akroma on the cheap?

I propose that the three cards you draw should all be Akroma.

I contend that Burning Inquiry wouldn't actually be all that busted. Hitting the jackpot off it can't be all that likely.

Also, possible bug: the tooltip for DFCs cuts off in the night side, so only the left half of that side is visible. I don't know if anyone else can reproduce that (flip cards have always been busted for me, yet it doesn't seem like anyone else notices a problem), but I'm just putting it out there.

Yep, that is a bug, and one for which I already have a local fix, going live probably tonight.

I don't think Burning Inquiry is busted with this either. I do, however think that if I was to build this deck, I would do this:

4x Merfolk Looter
4x Soldevi Sage
4x Lore Broker

Burning Inquiry probably wouldn't make the list because it, itself, is not a creature. Seems like a good place to start if you wanted to playtest this card.

2012-08-17 20:37:45: SadisticMystic edited Haunting Vision:

as a transform, it has the potential of flipping back from multiple simultaneous card draws, but I can at least push back the bombo from 4 counters to 6

2016-02-18 09:35:46: Alex edited Haunting Vision

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