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CardName: Winter Blossoms Cost: 2G Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put up to two creature and/or land cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flavour Text: "Pale snow and pink blossoms / hide the ground's bloody red." -Poem by Fei Wushan Set/Rarity: Xianlu Common

Winter Blossoms
{2}{g}
 
 C 
Sorcery
Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put up to two creature and/or land cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
"Pale snow and pink blossoms /
hide the ground's bloody red."
-Poem by Fei Wushan
Updated on 08 Dec 2017 by Mal

Code: CG17

History: [-]

2017-11-04 04:11:13: Mal created and commented on the card Winter Blossoms

Not sure about the design on this for a common. Might be better to just go with Verdant Haven instead.

2017-11-05 05:47:55: Mal edited Winter Blossoms:

Made it slightly more cohesive. Swapped {t}: +{g}{x} to your mana pool and T: Gain 1 life for T: Add {g}{g} to your mana pool and T: Add {x} to your mana pool.

2017-11-30 23:52:13: Mal edited Winter Blossoms:

Changing this into a Sorcery with a different effect. Swapping slots with the Talisman.

2017-11-30 23:52:37: Mal edited Winter Blossoms

Ramp 2 for 3 mana sounds like a deal too good to miss up on. Perhaps too swingy in that it can also whiff completely?

2017-12-04 16:31:28: Mal edited Winter Blossoms:

Adjusted. Now a Gift of the Gargantuan that puts stuff in the grave.

Yeah, let's adjust that to be less highroll-y. I figure ramping that much isn't needed in this set since a lot of the creatures are fairly cheap, cost-wise.

2017-12-04 16:32:28: Mal edited Winter Blossoms

If I understand the intent correctly, this requires "and/or" (Pieces of the Puzzle). Actually, given that the cards go into your graveyard anyway, I would have the cards be revealed initially, not looked at.

It's like a mix between Scout the Borders & Gift of the Gargantuan.

2017-12-06 17:21:29: Mal edited Winter Blossoms:

Added and/or

2017-12-06 17:21:48: Mal edited Winter Blossoms

Good point - wording adjusted.

It's somewhat stronger than Scout the Borders (significantly so), and honestly probably closer to green Divination. I might adjust it to {3}{g} because of that.

The wording is still messed up...

> Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put up to two creature and/or land cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Ahh, thanks for that.

2017-12-08 18:25:17: Mal edited Winter Blossoms

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