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CardName: Unfounded Hope Cost: 4WW Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: If you would lose the game, instead exile Unfounded Hope, shuffle your graveyard into your library, remove all counters on you, and your life total becomes 7. Flavour Text: "Everything dies. To fight me is to fight time itself." -- Baron Sengir Set/Rarity: Homelands Restored Basic

Unfounded Hope

Enchantment

If you would lose the game, instead exile Unfounded Hope, shuffle your graveyard into your library, remove all counters on you, and your life total becomes 7.

"Everything dies. To fight me is to fight time itself."
— Baron Sengir

Illus. Greg & Tim Hildebrandt

Updated on 23 Jan 2015 by jmgariepy

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2015-01-23 01:06:43: jmgariepy created the card Unfounded Hope

by jmgariepy:

Personal art challenge number two. That guy in the back reminds me of Urza, but I sure ain't using that.

Homelands is a really hard set to design for. No mechanics to speak of, except for a smattering of tribal and a few -1/-1 counters. In theory, design should be top down... but creating whole new storylines for Homelands feels weird. I'm trying to honor the set, not fanfiction it.

Ah, well, this one seems to work, even if I had to struggle for it.

2015-01-23 01:14:21: jmgariepy edited Unfounded Hope

by Link:

This reminds me of Lich's Mirror.

by jmgariepy:

Ah, crud. Forgot Lich's Mirror. Well, I guess it's technically a different card, since it doesn't reset your entire game.

by Link:

This seems mostly worse, except that Lich's Mirror doesn't reset poison counters.

by jmgariepy:

Lich's Mirror resets permanents, including lands. That's kind of hard to recover from, even with the 20 life.

by Alex:

Yeah, this is much better because it leaves you your board state.