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Originally, she had Ray of Command as her ability, but that sort of theft isn't blue anymore. However, Rhythm is actually interesting here, as it still gives you the ability to untap the card unexpectedly and make a switch.
We'll see how it develops.
What a curious ability on a Rhythm creature. The only immediately obvious use I can see is giving several creatures summoning sickness in the opponent's declare attackers step.
Ahh! I hadn't encountered that particular myth of homunculus creation. If it's a reference to an established means of making one, then I completely retract my objection.
Is that just to avoid duplicitous behavior in a tournament setting?
What if it was reworded to be "Target player reveals the top five cards of his or library, exiles all creature cards revealed this way, and puts all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard."?
I was going by the approximate formula for creating a homunculus as described on the infamous wikipedia:
"One such variant involved the use of the mandrake. Popular belief held that this plant grew where semen ejaculated by hanged men (during the last convulsive spasms before death) fell to the ground, and its roots vaguely resemble a human form to varying degrees. The root was to be picked before dawn on a Friday morning by a black dog, then washed and "fed" with milk and honey and, in some prescriptions, blood, whereupon it would fully develop into a miniature human which would guard and protect its owner."
Note: I had just watched Pan's Labyrinth.
What are you meaning by "homunculus"?
Traditionally, the word meant what its Latin etymology says it means: "little man". Specifically, a constructed, artificial little man (as opposed to a midget). It's a bit like "golem".
In Magic, it tends to have pretty much that meaning, but perhaps with a bit of thrull-like flavour. See Sneaky Homunculus and Puppet Conjurer.
There's also the meaning popularised by Fullmetal Alchemist, in which homunculi are creepy, shade-like creatures, created accidentally by forbidden acts of alchemy; and the scientific meaning which seems to be basically "reduced-scale model of the human body"
I don't think a "Giant Mandrake" sounds like either a Giant Homunculus or a Plant Homunculus using either the traditional, Magic, or FMA meanings of "homunculus". It might make sense in the scientific meaning, but a "giant reduced-scale model" is also somewhat brain-bending as a concept.
Fiddled with nomenclature.
I've got an idea!
...Gosh. It seems you're right. Looks like I'm out of touch with that particular slice of the pie.
...Somehow I seem to have missed that bit. OK.
And also better than Giant Dwarf, and than Fish Monger and Designer Shade. But that still doesn't make it a sensible type line to print :P
Thanks, Alex! I started out just trying to think of a way to color-shift Mind Spring into black for no particular reason, but then though about ways to make my original design more black. What's funny is that when you use it on yourself, it's actually a lot like casting three blue spells at once: Mana Severance, Selective Memory, and Mind Spring.
Well, I definitely don't think it's white anymore. And the last three Maros printed have been: Psychosis Crawler, Overbeing of Myth, and Aeon Chronicler.
So I think this function has a fair argument for being in blue.
At instant-speed!
It's better than "Fake-Giant Giant".
Hm, do you think the Empyrial Armor effect is blue now? I don't think I do...
Nice card! Air Elemental + Skyshaper, with an extra Amugaba twist.