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CardName: Leyline of Aspirations Cost: 2wg Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: If Leyline of Aspirations is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to discard cards. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Yet another card dump (Circeus's) Rare |
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Solid, but doesn't seem like it'd be worth mulliganning to get.
could give it loxodon smiter's ability instead?
"If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard a card, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard."
That'd be functionally the same. The opponent would never ever fire off a discard spell at you if you had that out. (I guess it makes Liliana of the Veil a bit worse.)
Well, it'd be very slightly better - forcing them to not deal damage with a Hypnotic Specter rather than just being slightly annoyed that the discard portion of it fails.
The Loxodon works (when it works, I've never actually seen it) because it's an unexpected trap.
So... maybe this needs morph? Leyline morph? That seems kinda unreasonable.
The Leyline mechanic is really the one thing that makes this work for me, because discard becomes truly threatening (As Thoughtseize prominently demonstrates) when the format includes a cheap discard effect. Loxodon Smiter is a nice anti-discard in the abstract, but ultimately does nothing against a turn 1 Toughtseize.