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CardName: Wind Charm Cost: uu Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Choose one — Return target creature to its owner's hand; or counter target noncreature spell; or draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Uncommon

Wind Charm
{u}{u}
 
 U 
Instant
Choose one — Return target creature to its owner's hand; or counter target noncreature spell; or draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.
Updated on 10 Jul 2013 by Link

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2013-07-10 01:06:27: Link created the card Wind Charm

Getting Disperse or Negate as options on one card is very strong. I think this'd be plenty playable if one of them was rather more restricted - Unsummon instead of Disperse, say.

Ah, fair point.

2013-07-10 18:42:50: Link edited Wind Charm
on 10 Jul 2013 by Vitenka (unsigned):

­Unsummon + Remove Soul? I guess they go together pretty naturally. Not entirely sure what the cost of a cantrip frobble is, but this seems like a lot of good options for only half a mana more than the cheapest.

It's Negate, not Remove Soul.
What's a frobble? Is Ponder a frobble? Or Sea Gate Oracle?

That card draw is pretty good, too. I would probably play this card without the other two options, assuming my deck wasn't chock full of looting. Inspiration then put your silver bullet/extra combo piece/superfluous land on the bottom of your library for {u}{u}? Yes, please.

Perhaps the last ability is more powerful than I thought. I see it as a summarized See Beyond.

I think we normally use "frobble" to mean Index effects as on Information Dealer. But I guess "draw a card, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library" would count too. It means a means of tweaking the specific cards you have without netting any card advantage. Scry is probably broadly a subset of frobbling.

I kinda ignored the draw cards option assuming it was like Izzet Charm or Azorius Charm, but actually, yow, yes, that is very good. Under standard costing an instant See Beyond would cost {2}{u}, so getting it for {u}{u} is pretty tasty. It's comparable to Brainstorm, which is too good to print these days; would it be too good at {u}{u}? Mmm, probably not.

So this is a charm composed of two good 2-cost effects and one good 1-cost. Can that get away with being 2-cost itself? Perhaps, if you're wanting to push it for constructed.

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