­Supplant Form + Presence of Thought

Well, guess I'm making a blue instant, then.

And one is a kinda odd halfway-house between Control Magic and Clone with a dash of Unsummon.

The other lets you counter your own spell to draw a card, or with Storm draw a LOT of cards. Too costly for what it does (you need to have at least two spells in flight, on of which you don't mind losing...), but kinda interesting.

So hey - has Unsummon been combined with card draw? Probably, but what the heck.

Hmm, I want to write "Return target spell to its owners hand, they draw cards equal to its CMC." but.. how do you even start to cost that? It's a hideous downside to use as a counterspell, usually - but a crazy upside if you're trying to mill or want to use it on yourself.

I guess I could combine them together to make Fork++ but that's been done. And it's red for hysterical raisins.

Ok - let's keep the ice part of Supplant Form, blue gets ice magic too rarely. (Because Wall of Ice shut up.)

So what's an ice modifier to presence of thought? "Icy Clarity"? That's a goood name.

Clarity in magic terms is, it seems, seeing face down stuff. Boooring. I guess I could just add 'target spell cannot be countered' but I recall that goes down a ratsnest of "Sure, ok, so now I don't supply any mana to it!"

Hmmm - an odd line of reasoning to try and find the right wording leads me to propose "Draw cards equal to CMC of target opponent" but no.

So yeah - let's give up and go modal. Pure upside, but what a nasty choice to have to make. Unless it's your spell of course, but that's a lot of mana to hold back.

Image: Fire raining down on his troops, who are begging for help, a mage looks on, not lifting a finger to help. Bonus points if said mage is holding an Icy Manipulator rather than a staff :)

Yeah, sadly at the moment you just need to copypaste the • character. I haven't got around to making a nicer solution for modern modal cards.

Also, I like this card.

Yeah, this is ingenious, I really like it. It's probably needs to cost more :( but I'm not sure exactly what.

Yeah, but 80% of the time it will be better than Jace's Ingenuity -- how often do you need more cards when your opponent isn't playing any 3+ cost spells? Plus it can be used as a pseudo-counter when that's what you need right now.