CardName: Madness
Cost: B/R
Type: Instant
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: Reveal the top card of your library, put it into your hand,
then discard it.
Draw a card.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: [Assorted] Card Repository Common
Madness
C
Instant
Reveal the top card of your library, put it into your hand, then discard it.
Draw a card.
Effectively, it's self-mill, but the card takes a detour through the hand.
Looting allows you to discard other cards than the card you have drawn; if changing the order of card draw and discard is enough to re-define the color between "loting" and "rummaging", then why not a change that entirely removes any informed choice?
You might as well argue that this is a form of rummaging with front-loaded cantrip as vice versa.
The colors would follow the context of the set and a madness-like ability in black-red is an option. IIRC that's the colors the ability had in TS-block - and where it's currently traded for the next Ravnica-based set.
I don't know. Still inspired by Whisper Campaign, but a little further off.
Shouldn't this be, uh, blue? Let's be honest here, the first ability is looting.
Effectively, it's self-mill, but the card takes a detour through the hand.
Looting allows you to discard other cards than the card you have drawn; if changing the order of card draw and discard is enough to re-define the color between "loting" and "rummaging", then why not a change that entirely removes any informed choice?
You might as well argue that this is a form of rummaging with front-loaded cantrip as vice versa.
The colors would follow the context of the set and a madness-like ability in black-red is an option. IIRC that's the colors the ability had in TS-block - and where it's currently traded for the next Ravnica-based set.
Oh, it's "discard it" - I read it as "discard a card" when I glazed though the card text.
Heh. Yes, this is entertainingly playable in Izzet, Golgari, and especially Time Spiral-style Rakdos.
Funny Mental Note variant.
—CF