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CardName: Mental Action Cost: 2U Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Draw a card. Instant Cascade (You may only cascade into instant cards) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Misc Design for future sets. Rare

Mental Action
{2}{u}
 
 R 
Instant
Draw a card.
Instant Cascade (You may only cascade into instant cards)
Updated on 23 Nov 2014 by Vonmarcus

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2014-11-15 04:10:09: Vonmarcus created and commented on the card Mental Action

Like type cycling. I'm toying with Type Cascade.

This actually make cascade slightly more powerful...

I realize that it'll make Cascade slightly more powerful. I'm just testing type cascade a little.

on 17 Nov 2014 by Visitor:

hmm. That's crazy good. The only real problem with it is that it's difficult to make it play nice with counter spells. But then, you just play it in response to an opponents spell and it'll probably counter it. So yeah, this is crazy good. Use it in any control deck that has two or one cost instant removal or control.

I'm not much of a rules guru, could you help me understand how this counters spells in anyway?

Most likely, a deck that plays this is going to have some counterspells to cascade into at the 2-cost instant spot, and if you flip up one of those while this is the only spell on the stack, you accomplish a whole lot of nothing (so you might as well decline to play the counterspell after flipping it up). But if you play this in reponse to something else, and a counterspell flips up there, now it has a perfectly fine target in the opponent's spell, giving you a 3-mana Dismiss plus whatever other card you flip.

I can see that happening in casual and formats where there are still 2 mana counter spells. Though I think that in the current standard of design it will not be that much of an issue. But then again I may be wrong.

Edit: I also didn't mean for this to have two instances of Cascade.

2014-11-23 00:07:49: Vonmarcus edited Mental Action

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