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CardName: Hierarch Artanis Cost: 2WU Type: Legendary Planeswalker - Artanis Pow/Tgh: /4 Rules Text: [+1]: Exile the top card of each player's library. You gain 2 life. [0]: Return any number of cards you own exiled by Hierarch Artanis to your hand. [-3]: Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Duel Decks Starcraft: Remastered Mythic

Hierarch Artanis
{2}{w}{u}
 
 M 
Legendary Planeswalker – Artanis
+1: Exile the top card of each player's library. You gain 2 life.
0: Return any number of cards you own exiled by Hierarch Artanis to your hand.
-3: Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.
4
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Updated on 13 Dec 2018 by jameschanlee

History: [-]

on 18 Oct 2012 by jameschanlee:

Worry: Protoss has too few instants; irritating to play against; impossible to kill; can exile lands. For heavy playtesting.

2012-10-25 00:29:39: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
2012-10-30 23:09:05: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis:

added reminder text. May not be needed, but meh.

2014-08-14 11:57:40: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
on 14 Aug 2014 by jameschanlee:

As far as innovativeness goes, he's not all that - a bit of Karn Liberated, a bit of Jace, the Mind Sculptor. His +1 has synergies with his second and third abilities, and some other cards like Envision. His second ability is the campaign ability void prison. The card picture is wrong though, it should read:

-7: Exile all other nonland permanents. You gain an emblem with "you may cast cards you own from exile."

Still, a planeswalker is a planeswalker, and any comments would be appreciated. :)

2014-08-14 12:05:34: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
2014-08-20 11:31:12: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
2014-08-20 23:07:19: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis:

removed power

2014-08-21 00:37:45: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis:

-7: -8

2014-08-21 03:48:32: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
on 22 Aug 2014 by Doombringer:

Being able to cast any card from exile kinda removes the point of the exile zone, turning it into a secondary graveyard. Limit the emblem a tiny bit. eg: Exile all other nonland permanents. You gain an emblem with "you may cast cards exiled by Zeratul, Nezarim Prelate."

This also has the fun effect of being able to cast your opponent's stuff if able.

on 22 Aug 2014 by Doombringer:

Also why is the exile face down???

on 23 Aug 2014 by jameschanlee:

I see. This is the Misthollow Griffin argument, isn't it? I can respect that. All right, I'll think of a different ability for him.

on 23 Aug 2014 by Doombringer:

I really like the current ability except that you can cast spells exiled by other effects. Being able to cast spells exiled by Zeratul is fine.

on 24 Aug 2014 by jameschanlee:

Got it. That seems.. reasonable. I'll change it to that. I don't have to phrase it like Daxos of Meletis since you're able to exile that person's lands as well anyway.

-8 -> -7 again

2016-04-19 23:25:01: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis:

Fixed loyalty symbols. Fixed typo in name (Nezarim -> Nerazim)

2016-04-22 23:03:33: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
on 22 Apr 2016 by jameschanlee:

Previously:

  • Reduction of complexity. This is a placeholder third ability, but final ability should be more or less this complex.
  • It was originally "you may cast cards you own from exile" but that treads on bad design space.
  • this latest one is confusing because you have to keep track of which cards were exiled with Z versus other means.
2016-04-22 23:06:43: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
2016-04-27 07:25:56: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
on 27 Apr 2016 by jameschanlee:

Before:

Zeratul, Nerazim Prelate {2}{w}{u}
Planeswalker - Zeratul
+1: Exile the top two cards of target player's library.
-3: Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top.
-8: Exile any number of target nonland permanents.
4

The set was started a long long time ago when Zeratul was THE face for protoss. Unfortunately, Z is really {w}{u}{b}. Replaced with Artanis.

2016-04-27 07:28:38: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis:

fixed typo: "without paying their mana costs"

2016-04-27 07:30:32: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis:

fixed typo. "top cards" -> top card

2017-06-15 11:21:52: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
2018-11-09 02:49:32: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis
2018-11-19 02:34:20: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis:

top card -> top two cards

on 28 Nov 2018 by jameschanlee:

Flagged by several people as "strong", pointing to first two abilities. Experience shows that in this deck, protoss is usually behind with creatures and you'll need last ability to stabilize. For testing using only first two abilities

2018-12-13 04:24:09: jameschanlee edited Hierarch Artanis

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