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Heh. Vedalken Orrery + Mindslaver.
Total Event Collapse was originally a sorcery that cost cost double
and said "Exile all cards." It won the game by itself, unless your opponent had (((Pandorica))) in their deck. That's the reason I gave it the exile-to-library clause, incidentally.
The old version was a little much. When I decided to make The Oncoming Storm a legit set, I tossed the idea. I think this is a good reuse of the image and flavor text (once I remember it).
@Vitenka: :D
Honestly, I think TTEdict is rare because, at the time, it was a new ability. Plus it allowed you to get around scary powerful black enchantments like Necropotence without having to break into a third color.
Nowadays, sacrificing your stuff isn't new. This card, as printed, seems rather playable to me. I don't think it's as useless as Alex makes it out to be, since it A.: Fizzles a fair number of spells and effects, and B.: Cycles whenever a permanent you control would die. That's not counting the time the card does what it was intended for: Getting rid of dangerous cards and killing Control Magic]. I'd run one or two.
I was joking about the apostrophes.
I'm going to make the effect actually matter in this set. Maybe a red creature or two that get bonuses for each exiled card you own.
"Exile target permanent you would like to control" is more red, but less templatable :)
Telim'Tor is named that because he is. (Also because he's an anagram of "Mr Toilet". I wish I were making that up.) The Edict belongs to him, like his Darts, so they get an apostrophe just like "dude1818's designs" would.
I think part of the point in the Edict was to allow a very cheap red cantrip, which is otherwise pretty non-existent: Overmaster, Crimson Wisps, any others? I dislike seeing cards that are strictly inferior to printed cards. If you really want to remove the cantrip, how about increasing the number of targets? "Up to three target permanents you own or control"?
I'd say it's rare because, 99% of the time it's useless. So there don't need to be many floating around.
The apostrophes are pronounced 'boing'.
I don't understand why Telim'Tor's Edict is rare (or why that many apostrophes are necessary). Removing the cantrip is good enough, I think.
I suppose you could Donate a Delusions of Mediocrity or an Illusions of Grandeur or whatever, and then exile it for instant damage. 20 for
would make this better than Lightning Bolt. But still.
Yeah, I quite like that idea, it's a bit odd, but it captures the helplessness feeling. Would "After you have cast ~, players may not ..." work under the rules? It seems to have the same meaning, but be a bit shorter. (I think both are static abilities which function on the stack?)
"As long as you have cast Silence Will Fall this turn, players may not cast spells or activate abilities this turn."
That also looks strange, but it has the benefit of being friendlier to new players. It's a little worse for the person playing it, since you can't back it up with a spell of your own...
Actually, the more I think about that wording, the more I like the idea behind it. It would be nice to see a few spells that had the final word for the round.
I wanted this card to capture the feel of "Don't even bother trying to respond; you're screwed anyway." If you had stuff with activated abilities, for example, it would be too late to use them. If I worded it as "When you cast ~, no spells/abilities until EOT" players could still respond before the trigger resolves, right?
Would "~ cannot be countered" cover most of it?
Not really. It kinda depends. Why did you want it to have split second?
I wanted this card to have split second, but I don't want that to be a mechanic in the set. I spelled it out, but I don't like the way it looks. Is there a way to reword it that does a similar thing?
Pleasing name :)