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CardName: Magus of Inversion Cost: 1U Type: Creature - Vedalken Wizard Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Rules Text: {R}, {T}: Scry 1. {G}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Flavour Text: "Any beast can be tempered and tamed, providing the right incentive." Set/Rarity: Name That Card Uncommon

Magus of Inversion
{1}{u}
 
 U 
Creature – Vedalken Wizard
{r}, {t}: Scry 1.
{g}, {t}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
"Any beast can be tempered and tamed, providing the right incentive."
1/3
Updated on 04 Nov 2019 by jmgariepy

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2019-10-28 12:39:03: jmgariepy created and commented on the card Magus of Inversion

Welcome back to name that card! Here's a weirdo for you. Have at it!

Wow... this is really weird... Is this even in pie? I don't think so..

Guess it still needs a name.. hm.. It's three colors so might as well make it tarkir temur creature...

It's a small thing that doesn't hurt much...

It can pay {r} to scry... Is that okay? IIRC cantrip is okay in any color, but normally just used in {u}... Is scry 5 color? i dont remember, i usually only see/use it in {u}.

Might be clearer if it were impulse draw. whatever im over thinking this. pretty much it lets you pay FIRE, HEAT and RAGE... or just red mana to... see the future? seer? i think thats thw flavor of scrying.

that {g} ability seems out of pie because green doesnt fly... but the thing is, if it were just for a blocking creature, i could accept it as granting pseudo-reach. it can be used for attack so its kinda weird..

Okay well Temur small race.. IIRC its just humans and ainok...

Are ainok {u}? i dont have time to google this.

So i'm going to go with a seer + a tactician who isn't physically super strong

Precognitive Tactician? Sure. creature type: Human Wizard

I've gotta go to school now bye

it’s technically in pie, becuase if those abilities cost {1}, it would still be fine, and this is just a subset of that.

Yeah; its blueness is doing all the heavy lifting here. It's really weird off-colour activations.

I just can't think of any name for it. Its chaotic colour is providing foresight; its ground-colour is providing flight. It's just topsy turvy. So, I dunno. "Magus of Inversion" some kind of faction that likes to force things to go against their nature - that's a blue thing to do.

I like Magus of Inversion

2019-11-04 05:37:34: jmgariepy edited Magus of Inversion

Magus of Inversion it is. To be honest, I was afraid that the name 'Apprentice' or 'Battlemage' would be kicked back at me, since this is roughly based on cards such as Esper Battlemage and Thornscape Apprentice. I figured an association with those cards would lead people to assume there was a cycle, which would then ask people to ask themselves "What is going on in this world?"

But I rather like Vitenka's answer, that this is Blue being Blue. Green doesn't do flying? Tish. Of course it can. With the right tools, we teach green creatures to fly. Just because elephants weren't born with wings doesn't mean they weren't born to fly.

So instead of a world where the colors are all kind of backwards, instead we get a blue tribe that insists on forcing its will on the rest of the colors. I like that better, and wouldn't mind to see that faction better developed.

Added flavor text for funsies. Let's move on to (((Name That Card #006))).

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