It's more obviously compared with the tortoise shaman blokey. He costs 1 more, but has a vuilt in way to sac. And can only fetch basic. Limited to basic only this is perfectly fine. Without the limit? Eeesh, pushing it.
Compare with Sylvan Scrying. This is a little bit of a hoop to jump through, but it gets you the land onto the field for 1 less mana. I can see that putting the land into hand would feel lacklustre, so perhaps this might be better as a 2/2 for 1G.
Compare with Sylvan Scrying. This is a little bit of a hoop to jump through, but it gets you the land onto the field for 1 less mana. I can see that putting the land into hand would feel lacklustre, so perhaps this might be better as a 2/2 for 1G.
Actually, I'm cool with the Legendary rule on this card. After all, it isn't much worse than planting a Birds of Paradise on round 1 and 2. Roughly the same effect, but they don't die to burn. But, then this guy doesn't tap for mana on round 2, either.
Oh, I just noticed this puts any land into play, not just basic. Well, that is quite a bit better. Especially since the two lands could be Cloudpost, Cloudpost or Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant with Urza's Tower hand. Yeah... I might suggest against that.
Well, he's a legend, making it a bit painful to cast the second time (not much painful though)
But yeah - makes this nearly competitive with counterspell, and on top of that it's a boomerang? Ok, so it's a soft counter, and they'll cast it again next turn, but. at least, I'd think.
In particular, JMD Tome has never been obsoleted. Every card-drawing artifact that's cheaper is also more restricted. For recent examples, see Seer's Sundial or Trigon of Thought or Candles of Leng.
Yeah, dude is right. It's the reason why all those cards from Prophecy say "If you control no untapped land". If you have no creatures, all of them have flying. All of them don't have flying either, because all of zero is zero. It's very strange grammatically, but true mathematically.
On the subject of airhood... I like it, though I'd also warn any designer to hit it to be careful. I remember what the bird tribe was like in Onslaught block... no matter what you tried to do with it, it always became about racing your opponent. Shadow in Timespiral, though, did a good job showing that you could work around a theme like this, as long as you were willing to turn most of the evasive creatures into utility creatures instead of efficient beatsticks. Obviously, you don't want to turn all your flyers into 1/1s for ... but I would make this happen more often than it does in normal Magic.
Logically, everything is vacuously true about the empty set. Noncreatures with airhood should have an escape clause: "When you control no creatures, sacrifice ~."
This card is so crazy that I can envision it being used in creatureless decks. 0 out of 0 will vacuously satisfy airhood, after all, and it's a lot less vulnerable than Worship that way.
I understand that Dragons are a major tribe in this set, but even in Jund all the Dragons were rare (other than Hellkite Hatchling). A common Dragon is very unusual, since they are the powerful red race.
It's more obviously compared with the tortoise shaman blokey. He costs 1 more, but has a vuilt in way to sac. And can only fetch basic. Limited to basic only this is perfectly fine. Without the limit? Eeesh, pushing it.
Compare with Sylvan Scrying. This is a little bit of a hoop to jump through, but it gets you the land onto the field for 1 less mana. I can see that putting the land into hand would feel lacklustre, so perhaps this might be better as a 2/2 for 1G.
Compare with Sylvan Scrying. This is a little bit of a hoop to jump through, but it gets you the land onto the field for 1 less mana. I can see that putting the land into hand would feel lacklustre, so perhaps this might be better as a 2/2 for 1G.
Actually, I'm cool with the Legendary rule on this card. After all, it isn't much worse than planting a Birds of Paradise on round 1 and 2. Roughly the same effect, but they don't die to burn. But, then this guy doesn't tap for mana on round 2, either.
Oh, I just noticed this puts any land into play, not just basic. Well, that is quite a bit better. Especially since the two lands could be Cloudpost, Cloudpost or Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant with Urza's Tower hand. Yeah... I might suggest against that.
This card by itself is powerful but okay. The fact that it abuses the legendary clause for its benefit, though, makes it too strong in my opinion.
(Also some might think THIS is the way to avoid people being scared of having legends stuck in their hand.)
Whoops. Yeah, I mixed them up. If you have an empty set of creatures, they all have flying (and also neither does and some do and others don't).
But this is easily fixed. Noncreatures would say "As long as you control one or more creatures and they all have flying...".
Kinda. There's Beastmancer.
@Alex In this set blue's enemies are Red, White and Black.
Well, if you're blue black it's not a hose but a save. This does feel like a really funky charm.
It feels a bit odd for this to hose both blue's allies (white and black) but only one of its enemies (red and green).
Although I confess when I saw the name I thought "But Angel of Despair has already been printed..."
This is so much better than Repulse (and Regress for that matter), it's not even funny.
Remand isn't
despite being "hard", but give it all these other options and it clearly needs to cost a lot more.
Well, he's a legend, making it a bit painful to cast the second time (not much painful though)
But yeah -
makes this nearly competitive with counterspell, and on top of that it's a boomerang? Ok, so it's a soft counter, and they'll cast it again next turn, but. 
at least, I'd think.
And then it'd pretty much be Venser, Shaper Savant.
In particular, JMD Tome has never been obsoleted. Every card-drawing artifact that's cheaper is also more restricted. For recent examples, see Seer's Sundial or Trigon of Thought or Candles of Leng.
Furnace Whelp, but at common.
Yeah, dude is right. It's the reason why all those cards from Prophecy say "If you control no untapped land". If you have no creatures, all of them have flying. All of them don't have flying either, because all of zero is zero. It's very strange grammatically, but true mathematically.
On the subject of airhood... I like it, though I'd also warn any designer to hit it to be careful. I remember what the bird tribe was like in Onslaught block... no matter what you tried to do with it, it always became about racing your opponent. Shadow in Timespiral, though, did a good job showing that you could work around a theme like this, as long as you were willing to turn most of the evasive creatures into utility creatures instead of efficient beatsticks. Obviously, you don't want to turn all your flyers into 1/1s for
... but I would make this happen more often than it does in normal Magic.
Logically, everything is vacuously true about the empty set. Noncreatures with airhood should have an escape clause: "When you control no creatures, sacrifice ~."
Not really. If you have an empty set of creatures, whatever statement you make about them is false.
This card is so crazy that I can envision it being used in creatureless decks. 0 out of 0 will vacuously satisfy airhood, after all, and it's a lot less vulnerable than Worship that way.
This is pretty crazy. It seems like it should have some sort of cost or drawback, that's for sure.
I understand that Dragons are a major tribe in this set, but even in Jund all the Dragons were rare (other than Hellkite Hatchling). A common Dragon is very unusual, since they are the powerful red race.
Ooh, very mythicy!
Compare to Jayemdae Tome. Not the best card, but not that far off and rare.
With so much land-returning from graveyard and this being common, one would think you have fetch lands in your set, or spellshapers. Or something. o.O
I don't mind these stats for this mana cost. In fact, I dislike Elvish Warrior. But it does read strange.
Very cool.
Because Commune with Nature and Beast Hunt weren't not-played enough.
Because Viridian Shaman wasn't enough.
Were you worried about dealing with 4-toughness fliers or you just didn't know Leaf Arrow existed?
Because it would make a cool mirrored pair with Lava Heizer.