Yeah, basing discard on Hymn to Tourach is like basing card draw on Ancestral Recall. Obviously, it's not that extreme... but I wouldn't base the power level of my discard on the best discard spell of all time, which was printed in 1994.
To be honest, I saw Mind Destruction where it was right now and thought "Huh. That's good and fair. I'd like to play with that." But I will admit, it's not a power uncommon. Looking at Gatherer, I'm kind of surprised that Mind Burst picked up 3.370 stars. I would have presumed it was under the 3 star threshold.
You know, my first thought was that Mind Burst wasn't good enough. But maybe it just wasn't as good as Cabal Therapy. Any discard card would come up short when compared to that card.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you want this card to be stronger, I would suggest something very minor to push it forward, because I already consider it playable. Gain X life doesn't seem appropriate. How about exiling the cards instead? If you instead want splashy, then maybe a rider to the effect of "If X is equal to four, then..."
Consider if you draw multiples of this in your opening hand, and how many cards opponents would discard if you cast all of them in the first few turns.
For several reasons modern design has moved towards caring about your own deck in those situations to the exclusion of caring about the opponent's graveyard.
It's sure that if you use the total cards to fully use its power, it takes 8 slots in your deck.
I will think about this card, how it can be better without being too powerful.
In this extension I wanted to make a cycle of cards like the burst cycle in Odyssey (Life, aetheric, mind, flame and muscle burst) with each a card relied on. (like Diligent Farmhead.)
Huh, a card that depends on a specific other card? While a perfectly legal thing to do, it seems like it's both forcing a specific deck and also unlikely to be very powerful. (Maybe if the effect was big enough she would be in the environment enough to reliably count a couple of cards from an opponent? But it seems likely she will just be cast directly to graveyard. From where it will immediately return, gain a breath counter - and go right back. So maybe she's useful for massively inflating your ETB/LTB triggers?
Yes, I think it's better as a Sorcery.
Shroud in black, the idea was "the darkness that makes you invisible."
like invisible stalker
You might already know this, but intimidate is deprecated - I don't see much of a reason to bring it back.
Shroud in black is rather weird. With Flash in it already, seems like black is becoming quite simic in terms of access to keywords.
Yeah, basing discard on Hymn to Tourach is like basing card draw on Ancestral Recall. Obviously, it's not that extreme... but I wouldn't base the power level of my discard on the best discard spell of all time, which was printed in 1994.
To be honest, I saw Mind Destruction where it was right now and thought "Huh. That's good and fair. I'd like to play with that." But I will admit, it's not a power uncommon. Looking at Gatherer, I'm kind of surprised that Mind Burst picked up 3.370 stars. I would have presumed it was under the 3 star threshold.
You know, my first thought was that Mind Burst wasn't good enough. But maybe it just wasn't as good as Cabal Therapy. Any discard card would come up short when compared to that card.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you want this card to be stronger, I would suggest something very minor to push it forward, because I already consider it playable. Gain X life doesn't seem appropriate. How about exiling the cards instead? If you instead want splashy, then maybe a rider to the effect of "If X is equal to four, then..."
Consider if you draw multiples of this in your opening hand, and how many cards opponents would discard if you cast all of them in the first few turns.
Hymn to Tourach is more powerful than they print nowdays - but that's mainly because of the 'at random' part.
I think I will make give X+2. When you think about hymn to tourach, it's not too much I think.
Makes it a bit less fiddly to actually do. Probably want to bump the power up a bit to compensate though. X+2 maybe? 2X is probably a bit much.
Ok
"number of cards named Mind Destruction"
For several reasons modern design has moved towards caring about your own deck in those situations to the exclusion of caring about the opponent's graveyard.
I suggest "your graveyard" over "all graveyards".
Maybe I can make it a 1/1 or even a 2/2.
It's sure that if you use the total cards to fully use its power, it takes 8 slots in your deck.
I will think about this card, how it can be better without being too powerful.
In this extension I wanted to make a cycle of cards like the burst cycle in Odyssey (Life, aetheric, mind, flame and muscle burst) with each a card relied on. (like Diligent Farmhead.)
Huh, a card that depends on a specific other card? While a perfectly legal thing to do, it seems like it's both forcing a specific deck and also unlikely to be very powerful. (Maybe if the effect was big enough she would be in the environment enough to reliably count a couple of cards from an opponent? But it seems likely she will just be cast directly to graveyard. From where it will immediately return, gain a breath counter - and go right back. So maybe she's useful for massively inflating your ETB/LTB triggers?
http://www.planesculptors.net/set/phedarax#details
Good remark, I mean each opponent. I will correct that.
Each opponent or target opponent?