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CardName: News Censor Cost: 3U Type: Creature Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Rules Text: It's against the law to put a card into your hand or draw a card other than the first card on your draw step. *Justice*-at the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent broke the law since your last turn, draw a card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Tesla Project Uncommon |
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I'm amused that with one of these on each side, each considers the other to be breaking the law.
"Putting a card into your hand" includes things like Anticipate, which tracks nicely with the card draw restriction, but also triggers off tutors and bounce spells. There's a reason Wizards never does that template: it's too broad.
That's the intent dude
That doesn't make sense. Why are bounce spells and card draw being punished on the same card? There's no tie between the two.
it's not punishing bounce spells, it's rewarding them as a side effect of preventing filter draw/searching/etc
"Whenever a card is put into your hand from your library outside of your draw step"?
It's too messy as is. The different ways of triggering this don't make any sense together. Inanimate's suggestion is better, but I raise the question why Wizards has never used this template before? The answer is it's unnecessary words for marginal gain. I think it should just care about drawing extra cards.
dude1818, as long as people 'get' it's meant to talk about card draw 90% of the time, it's fine. Exceptional cases in execution of a top-down card can easily be ignored if the flavor of the card itself is good the other part of the time.
For example, in the game of Magic, elephants can wear boots and wield swords. It's clear that the flavor of those things is meant to be used just for humanoids; but it works on other stuff too.
Here, it's pretty clear this is meant to talk about 'information', but it's a nice bonus that it works with other stuff. I doubt the bonus 'hurts' the card at all.
Are you talking about the current template or your "from the library" version? Because your points don't apply to the current template; it's as Melvin-y as they come. If it was "It's against the law for a player to put a card into their hand from their library other the than the first card that player draws during their draw step," I will grant you that the card as a whole makes sense. Still think it's toeing the line on complexity, but that's fine for some cards.