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CardName: Theory // Practice Cost: 2u // 1rr Type: Instant // Instant Pow/Tgh: / // / Rules Text: Target player mills three cards. // As an additional cost to cast Practice, exile a card from your hand. Draw two cards. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Yet another card dump (Circeus's) Uncommon

Theory
{2}{u}
 
 U 
Instant
Target player mills three cards.
Practice
{1}{r}{r}
 
 U 
Instant
As an additional cost to cast Practice, exile a card from your hand.
Draw two cards.
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Updated on 08 Jun 2020 by Circeus

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2013-03-30 05:44:40: Circeus created the card Theory // Practice
2013-03-30 05:48:27: Circeus edited Theory // Practice
2013-04-05 05:58:06: Circeus edited Theory // Practice
2013-04-05 17:10:07: Circeus edited Theory // Practice:

Enemy color-theme with token colors. I'm moving slowblink from blue to red.

2013-04-07 06:18:30: Circeus edited Theory // Practice:

Move Theory's token making to Heaven.

2013-04-07 06:18:47: Circeus edited Theory // Practice:

typoe (you -> your)

on 07 Apr 2013 by dude1818:

Practice isn't currently one of red's abilities. White then blue get it.

on 07 Apr 2013 by Circeus:

As I said in the comment, I'm making it secondary in red rather than blue.

It's woefully underused in blue (4 cards since Planar Chaos' Frenetic Sliver, and several of those aren't even monoblue), probably on account of being too similar (and usually less powerful) than bounce.

I think it serves well to expand red's bag of trick, plus red has also dipped its toes in it with Ignorant Bliss (a pertinent reprint for an exile triggers set) and Norin the Wary.

on 07 Apr 2013 by jmgariepy:

I can buy flickering in red, but not at instant speed, where it will most likely be used to save your creatures... which isn't very red at all. But if this card was a sorcery? Yeah, I can squint and see it. I don't think I agree with it, but I can readily accept it.

on 07 Apr 2013 by amuseum:

why is red stealing everyone's pie

on 07 Apr 2013 by Vitenka:

Well, red gets to steal stuff nowadays. And Orcs are red, and have pie.. I can kinda see it :)

on 07 Apr 2013 by Link:

Because red is boring, amuseum.

on 07 Apr 2013 by Circeus:

"where it will most likely be used to save your creatures... which isn't very red at all." Well, isn't it high time we started to see the positive side of red's emotions?

On the aggressive side, it's red going "I want this gone NOW. I don't care if it comes back as long as it gets out of my way." (In white it's "gentle" removal, but I'm not entirely sure what the flavor is supposed to be in blue so that it's different from bounce.)

2013-04-10 15:46:34: Circeus edited Theory // Practice:

downgraded Theory: prob. too powerful for a Delve set. Made Practice more flavorful in a "plans gone awry" way, yet not irrelevant.

on 10 Apr 2013 by Alex:

Yuck @ the current Practice. Envying Wild Guess is a bad place to be.

on 10 Apr 2013 by Circeus:

Even as a delve enabler, you're probably right. discard 2, draw 2 is probably acceptable at uncommon?

on 10 Apr 2013 by Alex:

Well, it was fine at common on Faithless Looting. It's unexciting at uncommon, but a useful spell, certainly.

on 10 Apr 2013 by Link:

If Practice drew two, it would be unacceptable, I think. As is it seems fine.

on 10 Apr 2013 by Circeus:

Why, L2i0n0k7? As Alex points out, it makes a fine common.

I was looking for a vaguely udnerwhelming effect on account of a comment I got elsewhere that this particular split card should REALLY reflect it's nature, with the "practice" representing a plan going awry.

on 10 Apr 2013 by Link:

Because this is the backward version of Faithless Looting, which I believe Maro said red is not generally allowed to have.

on 10 Apr 2013 by Alex:

­Faithless Looting is off-limits now for red due to its order (more's the pity), but I don't recall a prohibition on discard-2-draw-2 for red. I believe Wild Guess is still permitted, and this seems equivalent to/worse than that.

2013-04-11 01:08:13: Circeus edited Theory // Practice:

fix theory, practice now only discard one.

2013-04-11 05:05:32: Circeus edited Theory // Practice
2013-04-21 18:30:05: Circeus edited Theory // Practice
2013-05-30 18:29:04: Circeus edited Theory // Practice
2013-06-17 16:49:36: Circeus edited Theory // Practice:

fix

2015-09-03 21:55:05: Circeus moved the card Theory // Practice from Ankh-Duat into Yet another card dump (Circeus's)
2020-06-08 02:33:24: Circeus edited Theory // Practice

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