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CardName: Congregate Cost: RGWU Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Exile the top card of each players library. As long as those cards remain exiled you may look at them and play them. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: ![Assorted] 4C Uncommon |
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I don't get it. If you posted this card without a mana cost and asked for reasonable mana costs for it, the most frequent mana cost to appear would likely be
. If it said "... top card of each opponents' library" then it could be mono-
. Examples of cards with similar effect: Gonti, Lord of Luxury, Nightveil Specter, Psychic Intrusion, Praetor's Grasp, Hedonist's Trove, Memory Plunder, etc...
In conclusions, this card that should be everything but
, looks like it should have almost nothing but 
in its mana cost, and is also quite under-powered. Is this for some unseemingly brilliant purpose that I'm missing?
EDIT: I'm looking at your reasonings about the card in the source thread... they seem a bit iffy. Was the original something like "You may cast the next spell this turn without paying its mana cost and as though it had flash"? That would much more sense to me as a
card...
It's effectively "You draw the top card from each players deck". Seems like straight library manipulation to me, with a side order of bonkers. Don't get why it's an uncastable quad-colour gold card. I... guess.. it's almost the antithesis of tutoring; making it non-black?
ironic, because casting other players' cards and messing with opponents' library is mostly
. but you have 
card that has every color but 
.
like when does
do this? not to mention, white is the worst color for card draw and library manipulation.
@Tahazzar: I don't know how there can be any confusion about what the original was like since I literally wrote it down in the reasoning.
And, yes, originally the card circumvented mana cost. Since drawing from an opponent's library wasn't as established in 2012 as it was today I probably used Bribery as a reference for color.
Thematically this was not representing "taking from the opponent like a tyrant", but "inspiring even opposing forces to come together in an act of creation".
I've been thinking to myself how this is worse than Divination/Concentrate in many ways and doesn't deserve the four-colored cost while transfering this card. I take further input to possible fixes into account, but prefer not to circumvent mana cost on an uncommon - I don't want to go from "bad draw spell" to "miracle top-deck Aetherworks Marvel activation as a spell" swingy.
@amuseum: Conceptually the colors could represent their card types being played off this, so white would stand for enchantments and planeswalkers.