CardName: Farwander Cost: GU Type: Strategy Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Look at the top three cards of your archive. Put two of them on the bottom of your archive. If the other card is a resource, you may put it in the warzone tapped. Otherwise, draw that card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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For Challenge # 108. I really like the lines in this particular piece of art. I also really liked how this wasn't your standard fighting creature that Magic hits us over the heads with. I figured it would be cool to make a very non-aggressive creature out of her. But when amuseum made some quick surface names for the card art, I had to admit that "Time-Walk Variant" was a much better match.
So I got green-blue sorcery stuck in the head, and I eventually came up with this (Actually, what I got first was "Coiling Oracle", then removed the creature, and added Sleight of Mind.) Seems a bit weak... but not in an obvious way, and works well with non-basics. I tried upping Sleight of Mind to Telling Time, but the wording was too convoluted, and maybe that was too good? 75% chance Rampant Growth plus cantrip seems strong for GU.
"Telling time" version could be "Reveal the top three cards of your archive. You may put a resource from among them into the warzone tapped. Then put one into your hand and the rest on the top or bottom of your library in any order."
It occurred to me that I could just draw three, then put two cards on the bottom. That seems like a reasonable alternative.
That would make it almost a better Brainstorm, since it basically comes with a built in fetch.
Two go to the bottom instead of the top; and it is gold not plain-blue, but yeah - it's a now VERY nice card. Looting for blue, and a CMC-2 land-fetch for green. Of course, it's CMC-2 landfetch once you already HAVE two colours of mana, so that's a bit less useful than it could be. But still verra verra nice.