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CardName: Uncommon Wish Cost: 4U Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: You may choose an uncommon card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Uncommon Wish. Flavour Text: Now, we’re getting somewhere... Set/Rarity: Magic 20XX Uncommon |
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Part of a linear cycle of wishes starting with Common Wish. Yes, I'm perfectly aware normal Magic doesn't do this, and I also know why. We're cool.
The common wish is a sorcery, and this one is an instant. Why? Uncommon is more powerful than Common? Plus, I needed something that helped put this over the top in a draft. Truth is, that common wish is usually a better card in a draft, but I drafted this card myself a few times, and found out that it wasn't terrible. It works good if you draft one or two strong uncommons from a third color, leave them in the sideboard along with an acceptable on color uncommon and splash the third color. Sometimes it's worth jumping through hoops...
The reminder text on this is inaccurate as reminder text, isn't it? Formats that care about rarity don't care what rarity a specific printing holds, as long as another printing had the rarity that matters. That's why you can play your M13 Rancor in Pauper.
What Link is referring to is this line:
"(A card is uncommon if it is uncommon in the set it is printed in.)"
Which I just cut. Magic 20XX was only ever intended to be drafted among a group of friends, so there are a number of cards that were a bit -un, this one one of them. That reminder text was more to stop arguments about cards that were reprinted in Magic 20XX with different commonalities, and whether or not they counted as uncommons. For confusion sake, I decided to let the cards do what they said they did, and reflected that in the reminder text.
But you're right, Link, that isn't the way normal Magic works. And while this card would never be printed, it should probably conform to the the rules as we know them. Edited, and thank you.