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CardName: Skeletal Scepter Cost: 1 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {1}, {T}: If Skeletal Scepter is on the battlefield, Exile a card in your hand face down. Sacrifice Skeletal Scepter: Return all cards exiled by Skeletal Scepter to your hand, then add {1} to your mana pool for each card returned in this manner. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Magic 20XD6 Rare |
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: If Skeletal Scepter is on the battlefield, Exile a card in your hand face down.
Hm. So it's like a storage land or mana battery, but you have to invest one card per mana you store in it? I don't think I like it. Except perhaps if I'm playing a Hellbent deck, like the kind that might like Ignorant Bliss.
Hellbent is kind of the point, since its a major mechanic in my block. I was trying to design a 'fixed' Gustha's Scepter, which is considerably better... but it's funny because removing the card now looks like a drawback. Still, as a way to get a boost of
in three turns it still seems potent, but maybe not fun...
Ignorant Bliss is already in the Core Set. I had multiple people request that card as soon as I mentioned the set would have Hellbent. :)
The bit about being on the battlefield is redundant, since that's the only place you can activate abilities from unless otherwise specified. And you can just say " Return all cards exiled by ~ to your hand..." since you're exiling them from your hand.
Other than the templating corrections, I really like this card. It would make an awesome combo with my card Pandorica.
The bit about being on the battlefield is necessary so that you don't hose yourself. One of the major complaints with Gustha's Scepter on the Gatherer page is that if you activate it, and someone destroys it in response, you still need to permanently exile a card in your hand because the trigger is on the stack. This is an attempt to rectify all the problems the original scepter had. Though you're right about not having to use the word "owner"... I'm changing that over.
And, wow. Yes, this would be a pretty crazy combo.
Well... it'd be a combo, at least. Not sure I'd call it crazy. I get to hide all my cards in exile rather than in my hand, although they're face up. This aids hellbent, protects against discard, and pumps the "number of cards exiled" theme that one or two custom cardsets have. It doesn't seem game-winningly good :P
In commander, paying
for something is the norm. Sometimes, when I see an awesome combo in commander, I forget that not everyone plays that format. Heck, I barely even play that format.