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CardName: Mind Erosion Cost: 2U Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: Rules Text: Target player puts the top six cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Flavour Text: "We may not be vampires, but don't imagine for a moment that means you're safe." - Condri interrogator Set/Rarity: Sienira's Facets Common |
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At common, I can see this becoming the core of a mill deck in many drafts. As an instant, I can see it disrupting the Eleventh Rite of Eharot. By letting it target yourself, I can see it enabling Reminisce. On the other hand, I could quibble about the name; Memory Erosion fits the slow but steady feeling much more closely.
Compare with Tome Scour, another common oneoff mill spell. Or even Dampen Thought, though that was uncommon.
This is a somewhat curiously bounded design space. Tome Scour puts a bottom limit on what you can do for a single mana; on the other hand, Glimpse the Unthinkable was rare and puts quite a top end, unless you count Archive Trap. I think six cards is better than seven for a common.
Agreed with Eric that "Memory Erosion" is a better (and more blue) name than "Mind Erosion". Changed.
Sadly, though, Memory Erosion already exists
D'oh! Okay, need a new name. Happy to take suggestions.
Will have a ponder (not a Ponder).
I've just realised that, allowing 1 mana for Instant, this is Tome Scour for 1 more card at 1 more mana. That doesn't feel like a very good deal.
Agreed; but see my earlier comment about the bounds on this design space. One or two more cards and we're halfway to the rare Glimpse the Unthinkable. I guess this could be 2 mana rather than 3.
Ah, yes, I missed that. Hmm.
I think it may hinge on how much being an Instant benefits the effect. And in a set which cares about instants being cast, 2U might well be fair.