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This and Bombarda both being in the set surprises me a little. With a four-colour deck vs a three-colour deck, these would be quite effective a lot of the time at locking out a certain colour. Are you and your wife fond of land destruction?
Nice. My first thought was that looked overpowered, but it's actually just Treasure Trove or Azure Mage, giving you an immediate cantrip in place of the 2/1. Harder to kill, but needing to spend half the mana at sorcery speed makes up for that.
Hm. Thought Reflection++? It is legendary, but still, wow.
A beautiful reprint for the set, though! Excellent fit both flavourfully and mechanically - my favourite kind of reprint :3
I've just discovered this set - somehow I didn't spot it when it was uploaded. Very nice work. A lot of the designs, like this one, are very flavourfully done. Excellent reflection in MtG terms of the Patronus's need for a powerful memory.
This is the card that I feel the worst about its rarity. To be honest I wanted to put it at rare, but my rares were already full by the time it got designed, and I had a hole open in uncommon, so...I stuck it there. It doesn't make a difference in the Duel Decks format, obviously, since it's singleton either way, but I definitely dislike seeing it at uncommon. Ah well.
Felix Felicis has another, more subtle interaction outside of Clash: it protects you from mill. It effectively says "whenever you would mill cards, mill one less." For example, if you get targeted by Tome Scour, you tap Felix Felicis in response to put it back on top of your library, it gets milled along with four other cards, and it goes right back into play, so you only lost four cards. Against something that mills you one card at a time, like Jace's Erasure, you become immune to the effect. That makes it both an enabler in a clash deck, and a sideboard against mill. It's obviously narrow, I agree, but it's rare. Rare cards are allowed to be narrow.
Yes, Harry effectively has battle cry, but he is the only card in the set with it. If I keyworded it, it would have to be a major set mechanic (since battle cry isn't evergreen). I already had enough other mechanics and didn't want to add battle cry to other cards, so I just spelled it out instead.
Originally Voldemort got a free phylactery counter when he entered the battlefield. Playtesting showed that was too powerful. The ability to eventually turn all of your artifacts into horcruxes makes him nearly unbeatable later, so he needed a first turn of vulnerability where he could be answered.