So my only option to make the payment be meaningful is to allow the opponent to look in the deck? The idea is that if an opponent pays, it ought to make the card less useful, but as is, they could pay all their life and the caster is still not forced to offer any extra choices.
The rules automatically imply the "up to" whether you put it on the card or not, because of the "fail to find" rule. Gifts Ungiven was recently given errata to have an "up to" so that its Oracle wording alone will be sufficient to figure out what you can do with the card, even if you've never heard of that rule.
How does making it "up to" fixes the problem at all? Now it's the card itself, not the rules that allow you to find nothing at all! I was trying to avoid the opponent looking at the entire deck, but I'm starting to wonder if that's possible.
"Fail to find" breaks this card. To make it work properly, it needs a new wording.
"Target opponent may pay any amount of life. Search your library for up to X plus one cards with different names, where X is the amount of life paid this way, reveal them, and shuffle your library. That opponent chooses X of those cards and you put them on the bottom of your library in any order. Put the rest into your hand."
So my only option to make the payment be meaningful is to allow the opponent to look in the deck? The idea is that if an opponent pays, it ought to make the card less useful, but as is, they could pay all their life and the caster is still not forced to offer any extra choices.
The rules automatically imply the "up to" whether you put it on the card or not, because of the "fail to find" rule. Gifts Ungiven was recently given errata to have an "up to" so that its Oracle wording alone will be sufficient to figure out what you can do with the card, even if you've never heard of that rule.
How does making it "up to" fixes the problem at all? Now it's the card itself, not the rules that allow you to find nothing at all! I was trying to avoid the opponent looking at the entire deck, but I'm starting to wonder if that's possible.
"Fail to find" breaks this card. To make it work properly, it needs a new wording.
"Target opponent may pay any amount of life. Search your library for up to X plus one cards with different names, where X is the amount of life paid this way, reveal them, and shuffle your library. That opponent chooses X of those cards and you put them on the bottom of your library in any order. Put the rest into your hand."
proper template
add rarity
was 2G put a trample counter on
no wait... down to 1B istead.
3B->5B
Can't remember where the untapped clause came from
capitalization
Banisher priest tech
Banisher priest tech
Banisher priest tech
Banisher priest tech
Banisher priest tech
Banisher priest tech
Banisher priest tech
now puts 2 tokens so it can be an Eyes in the Sky on turn 4
ANOTHER name change >>