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CardName: Varlan's Desire Cost: 2GGUU Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the revealed creature's toughness. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon

Varlan's Desire
{2}{g}{g}{u}{u}
 
 U 
Sorcery
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is the revealed creature's toughness.
Updated on 27 Jan 2012 by Link

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2011-07-24 04:03:17: Link created the card Varlan's Desire

For Challenge # 004. This went through several iterations before I posted it, and I'm still not sure whether or not I'm happy with it.

I don't see how it relates to Varlan the Grower at all...

He's looking for creatures? Since he needs them to function? If it doesn't make sense I'll think of something else.

2011-07-24 15:58:47: Link edited Varlan's Desire

Now it's almost Lead the Stampede, but with blue in it...

2011-07-24 16:38:31: Link edited Varlan's Desire

I completely changed the effect.

The fun thing about this is if you use it to get Phyrexian Dreadnought, suddenly you automatically have fuel for its trigger without needing to sidestep it.

(Not that I can imagine any reason you'd want to play it at that point.)

Don't you mean "can't?" :)

"it" there means the Dreadnought: if you already have a 15/15, why would you want to sacrifice it just to get a new 12/12 to stick?

If trample is a consideration, there were likely much better choices for what you could have put the counters on.

Sorry, I read your comment completely wrong. I don't even know what I thought it said. Haha. Anyway, is this too good?

2012-01-27 01:59:52: Link edited Varlan's Desire:

Changed mana cost.

I feel like this was too cheap before... but now maybe it costs too much. I don't know. It had CMC 4 before, but that just seemed too early to let someone put 15 +1/+1 counters on something by revealing Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.

Yeah, revealing a card form a deck just means "I had to put a dead card in my deck" (and hey, if I DO get to 15 mana somehow...)

Seems a shame.

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