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CardName: Charge of Desperation Cost: Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: (Nonexistent mana costs can't be paid.) All creatures you control gain haste, are unblockable, and get +X+/X until end of turn, where X is the total number of creatures you control. Gambit (You may only cast this spell from within your library. If you do, you lose the game at the beginning of your next end step.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Chalkdump Online Mythic
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Sorcery
(Nonexistent mana costs can't be paid.)
All creatures you control gain haste, are unblockable, and get +X+/X until end of turn, where X is the total number of creatures you control. Gambit (You may only cast this spell from within your library. If you do, you lose the game at the beginning of your next end step.) |
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I think I'm onto something here... thoughts definitely appreciated, as I don't fully know what cans of worms I'm opening.
I'm almost afraid to hit 'Create'!
It's a fun concept - but it's too easy to not reveal that you have it, if you do draw it.
But there's no down-side to casting it from hand if you DO draw it - so why would you NOT run four of it, and cast it from library as soon as you can win that way? (With some counterspells held back because Fog would ruin your day.)
ah yeah... oh, there was a Splice card with no cost and a particular clause that it couldn't actually be played... that'd probably work (or a variation of it).
I think this works so it can't actually be cast from your hand.
This indeed stops it being cast from your hand... but there isn't actually anything letting this be cast from your library.
Durned Oracle wordings... there's gotta be some way to make it work within the current rules framework, just a matter of figuring that out. "If this card is in your library, you may search for it and reveal it. If you do, it is considered cast."
It's one of those things you come across with old cards, like Animate Dead, Illusionary Mask and the 'Substance' cards from Mirage block (Armor of Thorns and Ward of Lights, etc.) There's an intuitive, conversational way to explain how a card is meant to behave, but to frame it in contemporary rules terms is a huge challenge.
True. Sorry, that was a bit nitpicky of me. It's the kind of thing that the templating team would take care of if the card was worth it.
So... is the idea that this is a free Overrun whenever you need it? With some trifling drawback about losing the game long after you'll have won it?
Yup; put four in your library, and at the appropriate point in the game say "OPk, cast those four cads" and win. Then lose next turn but who cares, it's too late, you won. Big reward, some risk (after all, they may have more fogs than you can counterspell)
Initially it also had "If you draw this you must cast it" which was sorta almost a balancing factor - but not a very fun one; and also accidentally didn't quite work.
I don't get what you're trying to achieve with this. When and how are you supposed to cast it?
For the record, I think keywording an effect that makes you lose the game is a bad idea.
Failed experiment. Ah well! I don't think I can make it work.