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Recent updates to Melody: (Generated at 2026-01-30 23:51:35)
Oh, I LIKE.
Needing a way to exile it is a wonderful way to get around reanimation.
I'd be temped to suggest it ETB as a 1/1 unless it came from exile; but that's just me trying to make the wording even froodier.
Testing new casting conditions. "Unless it was cast from exile" is a great rules phrase.
Thinking about this some more, I've realized that the "five or more spells" clause is a bit ridiculous, as this isn't really a sensible end-goal for Storm decks or any other deck that could reasonably cast a whole bunch spells in one go. In some sense, that might be appropriate, but I do also want to try and find a more flavorful restriction.
To that end, one thought I had was to instead connect this with Delve, which is something that I've conceptually connected to treasure-hunting for whatever reason. And since this, and all the other Heratian artifacts, are things that are being dug up from the Ruins of Herat, why not make it so this can only be cast from exile. (After it's been "dug" up by Delving.)
Haakon, Stromgald Scourge has already explored similar territory, and as much as I'm loathe to fiddle with the exile zone, I figure it's ok for a one-off. But the next problem is how do I keep it from also being Reanimated without making the rules super-clunky?
Changed from a 3/5 to a 4/3 to help differentiate from Ward of the Wilds
That's an interesting analog, but yeah, functions similarly.
Interesting. Reminds me a bit of Mogg War Marshal.
Changed to a 1/1.
Added nontoken for flavor purposes. Tokens don't get graves, as they disappear from the graveyard. ;)
Returned the alchemy clause to its ability, but excised damage-prevention for players.
Whoa, thanks for the reference.
So now, some questions:
I think that works. It means if you cast it on turn 1, it'll go straight from the stack to the graveyard (thanks to that weird rule they added to cover Worms of the Earth corner cases).
That's not very fun.
Is a "cannot enter the battlefield" clause allowed? (Thinking of other possibilities that evade Aether Vial and Heratian Televask.)
Hmm. Force of Savagery with a built-in way to keep it alive. Might be cleaner as just a 1-mana Force of Savagery.
Hmmmm, seems close. Can't remember if that's been suggested before, but it sounds good. For more splash, and lining it up with the Melody keyword:
"Until end of turn, whenever you cast a spell, you may exile it. If you do, you may play a card you own from outside the game without paying its mana cost."
What about, at 30 words and 142 characters, "The next time you cast a spell this turn, exile it. If you do, you may play a card you own from outside the game without paying its mana cost."
Consider changing the ultimate to a simpler Wish effect for 5 Loyalty, something like:
[-5] - Discard your hand. For each card discarded this way, you may choose a card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand.
But that just seems comparatively lame.
Fiddling with numbers to shorten text, fix power level, and differentiate from Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Removed a mode and lowered the cost from
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