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CardName: Weighted Dice Cost: 2 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: If you would look at or reveal one or more cards from your hand or the top of your library, instead look at or reveal twice that many cards and choose half of them to ignore. Flavour Text: It doesn't hurt to give Luck a helping hand. Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare |
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For Challenge # 013. A Krark's Thumb for card reveals. I used to have the Krark's Thumb text on there as well, but it's easier to read without it.
The idea is that a number of cards that use the top of your deck to simulate randomness, such as Kithkin Zephyrnaut or Cruel Deceiver, you now have more control over.
I like this. I would probably use it. How does it interact with Ponder or Preordain, though? In what order do you put back the revealed cards? If you choose to ignore every other card, you can't put them back in the same order. So this basically doubles the effect of scry, right? Except that you shouldn't be able to put the "extra" cards on the bottom, since you're ignoring them... How would your opponent keep track?
Also, how does this work with Dark Confidant? It doesn't tell me what to do with the extra revealed card. Do I just put it back on top of my library?
I think revealed cards are still in your library, so Dark Confident becomes "reveal two cards and put one into your hand" which is ok but Ponder becomes "Look at the top six cards of your library. You may swap the positions of any three of them without changing their position relative to the others. You may shuffle your library. Draw a card." Which is pretty good, but horribly confusing :) However, I may be wrong, if "reveal" means "take out of the library" then ponder works ok as "reveal six cards. Choose three of them and put those on top in any order, etc."
Ha. Yeah, I suspected there might be tricky cases like those. Cards that are merely "revealed" never leave the zone they're in. So Dark Confidant lets you choose one of the two to draw-and-suffer-for. "Scry 2" as on Preordain I think translates into "Look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them on the bottom of your library, and put the rest back on top of your library".
Ponder is more problematic. I think Jack's right about what it does. I'd like to change the wording to be slightly saner, but I can't come up with anything that seems to work. I fear this is unprintably complicated, unfortunately. But it was a fun experiment :)
Yeah. I feel like there must be a good fix, but can't think for certain what it would be. It's certainly a good idea whether it can work in all circumstances or not.