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CardName: Silence Will Fall Cost: 4WW Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: As long as you have cast Silence Will Fall this turn, players can’t cast spells or activate abilities that aren’t mana abilities this turn. Exile all permanents other than basic lands. Flavour Text: “Silence will fall when the question is asked.” — core belief of the Silence, “Let’s Kill Hitler” Set/Rarity: The Oncoming Storm Rare

Silence Will Fall

Sorcery

As long as you have cast Silence Will Fall this turn, players can’t cast spells or activate abilities that aren’t mana abilities this turn.
Exile all permanents other than basic lands.

“Silence will fall when the question is asked.” — core belief of the Silence, “Let’s Kill Hitler”

Updated on 14 Jul 2012 by dude1818

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2011-07-22 20:56:03: dude1818 created the card Silence Will Fall

2011-07-28 20:11:45: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall:

changed from Wrath of God to Final Judgement

2011-08-15 02:03:02: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

by dude1818:

This card needs a new picture and flavor text. However, its ability is now more suited to the flavor, so that's good!

2011-08-29 18:34:18: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

2011-12-11 05:08:48: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

2011-12-14 14:22:30: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

by dude1818:

I wanted this card to have split second, but I don't want that to be a mechanic in the set. I spelled it out, but I don't like the way it looks. Is there a way to reword it that does a similar thing?

by Alex:

Not really. It kinda depends. Why did you want it to have split second?

by Visitor:

Would "~ cannot be countered" cover most of it?

by dude1818:

I wanted this card to capture the feel of "Don't even bother trying to respond; you're screwed anyway." If you had stuff with activated abilities, for example, it would be too late to use them. If I worded it as "When you cast ~, no spells/abilities until EOT" players could still respond before the trigger resolves, right?

by jmgariepy:

"As long as you have cast Silence Will Fall this turn, players may not cast spells or activate abilities this turn."

That also looks strange, but it has the benefit of being friendlier to new players. It's a little worse for the person playing it, since you can't back it up with a spell of your own...

Actually, the more I think about that wording, the more I like the idea behind it. It would be nice to see a few spells that had the final word for the round.

2011-12-15 04:55:04: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

by Jack V:

Yeah, I quite like that idea, it's a bit odd, but it captures the helplessness feeling. Would "After you have cast ~, players may not ..." work under the rules? It seems to have the same meaning, but be a bit shorter. (I think both are static abilities which function on the stack?)

2011-12-18 04:46:00: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

2012-01-01 03:27:55: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

2012-07-14 22:16:42: dude1818 edited Silence Will Fall

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