First off, if there's better wording than this, I welcome it.

NTC #032 is kind of weird. I'm sure some people's first thought is to have as few cards in your hand as possible when casting this spell. But if there are no cards in your hand, this effectively dumps the top seven cards of your library into your graveyard. If you have one, you draw six cards, but only get to keep one.

Of course, casting this card when there's six cards in your hand just let's you loot one. On average, I presume the sweet spot is three in hand, loot four. But your mileage may vary depending on what you're trying to accomplish.

But... um... what's this spell called?

Devname: "What do you know?"

This makes me think of the Pythagorean Cup (aka tantalus cup, greedy cup.). Or just any container with a drain halfway up the side. If this was an artifact or legendary creature then you could use these things for a name but it's a sorcery so I'm not sure. I'm thinking of water and drains.

Cup of Greed would be a great name.

I give my victory to James if this suggestion wins, because it's his idea, I basically just gave it a name, since I don't think he actually suggested one (maybe Pythagorean Cup was his suggestion?)

Hm... This makes me think of a wizard being given access to endless information for a cruelly short period of time, but he is cursed to forget anything he doesn't write down or mark his memory with... God, that's a cruel punishment for a wizard.

Maybe for a name it could be, Temporary Omniscience or Frantic Transcription

Would require both flavor text and art to support, but would be highly flavorful.

­Fleeting Genius

Kelly Bundy in that one episode.

Probably too long, but: In one ear, out the other.

Actually - do it in two bits. Cardname: Whispers in your ear Flavourtext: and out the other.

"Draw until you have seven or more" just lets you draw as much as you want. Use Kozilek, the Great Distortion's template

I mean, I thought the idea was for this to let you draw your whole deck (minus any cards you leave for safety) and then sift your best cards into your hand and toss the rest...

Of course, that's a bit dangerous, since your opponent could mill you... but combo this with Gaea's Blessing or Clear the Mind is one of the most stupid powerful things ever. Literally is just tutor seven cards for 4/5 mana. That's a dozen times more powerful than Ancestral Recall plus the tutor of your choice, combined.

This should definitely be changed. It's too unbelievably sweet.

> lets you draw as much as you want

No? Draw 1; do you have 7+? Stop. No? Repeat.

It says to draw cards until you have seven or more cards in hand.

I think that means you can draw, say 30, and then be like, 'okay' i'll discard 30 cards now.

Actually, this might work as intended. But that depends on if this triggers each time you draw a card or once you've finished drawing? If you say, "I will draw 30 cards" do you draw 30 cards then the effect happens, or do you say 'I will draw 30 cards' and then the effect checks after each card?

I assumed the former, but the latter would work too... In which case why is there 'or more'? I guess in case you cast this while having seven (or more) cards in hand?

I don't know what the rules say (or if they have rules on this), but regardless of if this works as intended, it could still be a lot clearer.

Cool card though. Probably not broken if it works.

If you want it to be "Draw until you have seven," say that. Otherwise drawing until you have eight, twenty, whatever are also legal actions. Precision of language is important. Besides, there's no way to reach more than seven without hitting seven first, so even if it worked the way you want, it's redundant

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I think saying this could be interpreted as "choose a number larger than seven, draw until you have that many" is a really tortuous interpretation of grammar. But if there's any potential confusion it probably does need to say "if you have fewer" or something.

I knew I didn't have that quite right, but I couldn't find the card to template around. Thank you Dude for reminding me that Kozilek exists.

But yeah 'Loot as much as you want' is clearly broken for two mana. That would guarantee your seven card, game winning combo to go off on round 3 every time. Heck, just putting the top 30 cards of your library into your graveyard is too powerful for two mana.

­Memory Sieve

Psychic Sift

­Draught of Knowledge

Forgotten Lessons

Could have somber flavor text about a character death, maybe.

Whispers of Arcanis

That one character with no lore, one card and who is apparently super powerful? Arcanis the Omnipotent. Maybe if you'd prefer a known character, Whispers of Bolas could work, though he is far more centered in than .

Glimpse the Worldsoul is pretty cool

Or, if that seems too (even though Worldsouls don't always have a color identity of , IIRC): Glimpse of Eternity is also a good name, and would reference the blind eternities instead of worldsouls.

I was thinking Glimpse the Thinkable (not very seriously), Glimpse of Eternity does capture a good feeling.

Thank you! I was actually drawing inspiration from Glimpse the Unthinkable, which honestly, would probably fit just as good on this card as on it's actual card... Though, that's definitely arguable.

Hmmm... what about Psychic Restoration flavored as a telepath, probably Jace, repairing the mind of someone who had their mind destroyed? Maybe it's a flashback to Jace having healed another character after they fought Bolas, and when he repairs this person's mind (maybe he was surprised to realize what they had done when he delved into their mind, because they just appeared like a somewhat-talented warrior/cleric/etc), they re-ascend as a planeswalker, because after fighting bolas, their mind was so broken that their spark stopped functioning?

Might be funny to be like, "Okay sir, I'm almost done in there, just gotta restore your memories of the last year, oh-- wait a minute, what the hell were you doing fighting an Elder Dragon?!"

guy planeswalks away

Flavor text: Jace was surprised that when he finished restoring the local shaman's mind, the elf planeswalked right in front of his eyes! or something similar :P

­Savant's Lament

Academics were like this. They'd know how to use so-and-so's theorem, but they'd forgotten how to do anything without so-and-so's theorem because they didn't need it any more.

We're trying something new! I set up a poll with EasyPolls, so go there and vote on your favorite choice!

Some notes:

Ooh! This is unexpected. Very cool idea, JM

I voted; I'll be honest; I voted for nearly all of them (lol). Most were really good. I skipped a few if I had any issues with them, even though there was maybe ONE (at most) that wouldn't be totally appropriate.

This has been one of the most interesting NTCs yet, IMO.

Wait. Isn't drawing then discarding a ability? Shouldn't this be red? Like Faithless Looting

Drawing then discarding was experimented in red, which is why it pops up on the eight year old card Faithless looting. But it only really lasted a couple of years like that. At some point, Wizards came to their senses and realized that discarding before drawing felt a lot more like impulsive red, and also came with a surprising amount of untapped space.

Drawing, then discarding, has been a Blue mechanic since... Weatherlight? It's arguable, but Merfolk Traders seems to be the first card to do this cleanly in a color. The mechanic is often referred to as 'Looting' since Merfolk Looter was the poster child of the mechanic for so many years (Discarding, then drawing is sometimes referred to as 'rummaging' because of Rummaging Goblin, but it's a less commonly used term.)

Some examples of Looting in Standard: Erratic Visionary, Facet Reader, Prying Eyes

Some examples of Rummaging in Standard: Merchant of the Vale, Ox of Agonas, Heartwarming Redemption

Okay I thought if it just had draw and discard in the same sentence then its called looting because of Faithless Looting. These color rules are so meticulous and I am so ignorant.

''These color rules are so meticulous''

I'll drink (water) to that. Cheers.

It's a few years old now, but it's good to always have the Mechanical Color Pie document handy as reference

Oh, I just remembered what this reminded me of: Ancient Excavation. AE wants you to have a full hand first, whereas this wants your hand to be empty

I just bookmarked that page a few days ago! Super useful, if slightly dated.

I had it bookmarked earlier this year (along with over 100 other beloved bookmarks), but when I got my computer back, they uninstalled all my programs and removed my bookmarks. Hell, I even lost some downloads for no discernible reason. I guess the hard drive was just that corrupted.

TLDR; I agree and have done this

That's a long enough wait. We're threatening to drag this card out too much. Acting as tie-breaker, I chose Glimpse of Eternity, and added some flavor text.

See you guys in (((NTC #033)))!

Haha Epic! Just what I was hoping for on that flavor text :)