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2012-09-12 08:06:23: Camruth commented on a card

2012-09-12 08:06:03: Camruth created the card Shattertooth Rats

2012-09-12 02:23:54: Camruth commented on Challenge # 053

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2012-09-11 18:35:03: Jack V commented on Farcaster

Oh yes, I totally missed that too, which shows how appropriate it was.

I guess it's most broken with something like Solitary Confinement or Glacial Chasm which become "During opponent's turn, (you have shroud / creatures can't attack you) and prevent all damage to you" which isn't perfect, but is a complete lock if they don't have the right artifact/enchantment removal.

2012-09-11 16:54:04: Alex commented on Farcaster

Oh. Wow. Yes. Straight into a Stax deck along with Braids, Cabal Minion or Smokestack. Yikes. Nicely done!

2012-09-11 03:25:06: Link commented on Farcaster

It does work well with things like Gilded Drake, but I also intended it to work with things like Dreamborn Muse, Braids, Conjurer Adept, and other such things you may only want to trigger during certain upkeeps.

2012-09-10 14:27:28: jmgariepy commented on Farcaster

This one kind of boggled me when it popped, too. Perhaps Link is anticipating an environment where Switcheroo becomes a format defining card. Maybe he just wants to set this up with Puca's Mischief, which is very unfair once you've lost tempo.

I made a quick Gatherer search for "Target opponent gains control" and came up with some interesting cards, but I'm pretty sure they aren't the sort of ideas that Link has. I have to admit, though, that this would only take one strong card to break it. A reprinted Avarice Totem, or a creature that kept insisting that it needed to go to its opponent's side of the battlefield. You know, like Karona, False God, but with proper timing.

2012-09-10 13:23:04: Alex commented on Farcaster

Hmm. Wording looks a little odd: you can effectively set up two of your permanents to be in antiphase. But it doesn't seem obviously evil. It'd be good if there were a lot of control-switching effects, or some such, but I can't think of a format with that. So I can't quite see what mischief Link is up to here...

2012-09-05 10:56:26: Jack V commented on Warcaller

Yeah, it's awesome we can get some examples where it's not obvious, but in retrospect is obviously broken.

2012-09-05 06:13:14: jmgariepy commented on Warcaller

Classy, Alex. I just thought the card was moderately too good...

2012-09-04 21:29:42: Alex commented on Warcaller

Indeed - well done! I was thinking to deliberately make something that'd be easy to throw into any deck with a Sun Titan and would go moderately degenerate. It's not worse than Splinter Twin-Deceiver Exarch, but that was pretty format-warping itself.

2012-09-04 12:40:07: Vitenka commented on Warcaller

I don't think "~ is broken if you combo with the titans" implies that ~ is broken. But.

2012-09-04 12:27:42: Chris commented on Warcaller

Ohhh, Sun Titan. Yes, this is sick.

2012-09-04 12:16:16: Vitenka commented on Warcaller

I'm presuming there's something that brings a creature back from the dead when you attack, but I don't know what it is.

2012-09-04 11:36:51: Chris commented on Warcaller

What happened two years ago that makes this sick and wrong, especially in white? Eldrazi?

2012-09-04 04:42:56: Link commented on Challenge # 052

I tried again with Farcaster as a sort of tweak on Conjurer's Closet.

2012-09-04 04:42:09: Link commented on Farcaster

For Challenge # 052.

2012-09-04 04:41:48: Link created the card Farcaster

2012-09-03 00:51:52: jmgariepy commented on Make Your Own Luck

Time Spiral is a broken card to begin with. It already has a number of enablers. Time Stop every turn, however, is a hard lock against some decks, and was reprinted in Tenth Edition. that being the case, yeah... that and/or Memory Jar would be pretty insane.

Edit: Holy! Memory Jar doesn't exile itself? What the 7I&$ were they thinking?

2012-09-02 20:41:03: SadisticMystic commented on Make Your Own Luck

Time Stop "works," but the card you're looking for is Time Spiral.

2012-09-02 11:01:56: Jack V commented on Make Your Own Luck

Ah! Sorry, yes, you're right, that's quite a good interaction, two supposed safety-mechanisms interacting to make a powerful spell recurse as many times as you want.

2012-09-02 10:30:29: jmgariepy commented on Make Your Own Luck

Oh, no, I was doing it the right way in my head. The idea was that the spell would keep exiling itself on resolution because what it did was too powerful to keep kicking around. Make Your Own Luck would just use the fact that it exiled again and again and again to it's benefit.

Want an example? How about Time Stop. If you wanted to be a little more (questionably) fair, you might use Diminishing Returns (though, I admit, that card's a bit too old to worry about).

2012-09-02 08:07:52: Jack V commented on Make Your Own Luck

Ah, I see! Yes, I think that is a really good, idea, but I don't think that's what the wording on this card does. I think "cast from exile" is just the normal wording meaning "from exile, put it on the stack, then it goes to the owner's graveyard as normal"? I think to cast it repeatedly you need the "copy it, you may cast the copy" wording which wouldn't be out of place, although it might be harder to make the oversight look like a place.

Then it's a bit like Panoptic Mirror, except that you have to pay every time, but get a lot more flexibility.

2012-09-01 23:41:53: jmgariepy commented on Reckless Ninjitsu

Ug! Hoisted on my own petard! Yes, the card should read 'player' not 'opponent', and you get a prize for seeing through the Murky Rosewater card to find the Evil Rosewater card behind it.

2012-09-01 23:40:29: jmgariepy edited Reckless Ninjitsu

2012-09-01 23:39:11: jmgariepy commented on Make Your Own Luck

Both, but my big dig was the ability to cast the same exiled sorcery or instant over and over again, if it exiled itself. Oh, and at instant speed doesn't hurt.

Funny thing is, it's true, this is only 'theoretically broken', in of the fact that it does a bunch of things it shouldn't be doing for much cheaper than should be happening. But would the card even crack standard? Yes.. oh, yes it would. But would that break the environment... I couldn't say.

I do know that part of my comparison to Temporal Aperture was a bit of Evil Mark Rosewater slight of hand. Temp. Ap. isn't a fair card... it only seems fair when compared to the rest of the Urza Block. How much would you pay to draw a card? Jayemdae Tome is too expensive, sure, but that's one heck of a discount.