Seer's Sanctuary Land (R) t: Add 1 to your mana pool 4, t: Foretell. (Look at the top 4 cards of your library. Put three of them on the bottom of your library in any order.)
Sacrificing this just for a "bad scry" seems like a pretty steep price. Would this be broken if it was a repeatable effect? (In Limited at least you'd have to be careful not to mill yourself out.) Or what if it sacrificed, but put the chosen card into your hand? That would be pretty strong (strictly better than the sac ability on Horizon Canopy), but maybe not unreasonable on a colorless land.
Whereas I was worried that it could be too strong. "Search to the top" is quite weak as a spell, but if you're in limited, in top-deck mode looking for a bomb, your lands aren't doing anything anyway, so this could be like "timewalk for X"...
I agree that I think this is very strong, and I certainly wouldn't want it to be repeatable. I worry the exiling part would make new players scared to play this, when in reality putting it on the bottom of the deck would work just as well.
I could also see a similar version where the ability costs XX and sac and the card goes in your hand as well.
Putting the leftovers on the bottom of your library might work (and is still not quite as strong as Scry X). I was aiming this for a power level where you'd use it when you don't need the land [anymore], and rarely before. (If it's strong enough players sack it even when they could use the land, we'll sometimes make them land-screw themselves and that's bad business).
I would expect this to be played as-is in any control deck less than three or four colors and in aggro decks of a single color.
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Land (R)
t: Add 1 to your mana pool
4, t: Foretell. (Look at the top 4 cards of your library. Put three of them on the bottom of your library in any order.)
Because I'm a rules nerd: What happens when "all but one" tries to look at 0?
ReplyDeleteProbably better templated similar to Browse: "Look at the top X cards of your library, put one of them on top of your library, and exile the rest."
DeleteSacrificing this just for a "bad scry" seems like a pretty steep price. Would this be broken if it was a repeatable effect? (In Limited at least you'd have to be careful not to mill yourself out.) Or what if it sacrificed, but put the chosen card into your hand? That would be pretty strong (strictly better than the sac ability on Horizon Canopy), but maybe not unreasonable on a colorless land.
ReplyDeleteWhereas I was worried that it could be too strong. "Search to the top" is quite weak as a spell, but if you're in limited, in top-deck mode looking for a bomb, your lands aren't doing anything anyway, so this could be like "timewalk for X"...
DeleteYes, I feel this actually is more strong then it reads. I guess it would be played 3 or 4 of in the typical Standard W/U Control™
DeleteI like it a lot.
DeleteI agree that I think this is very strong, and I certainly wouldn't want it to be repeatable. I worry the exiling part would make new players scared to play this, when in reality putting it on the bottom of the deck would work just as well.
I could also see a similar version where the ability costs XX and sac and the card goes in your hand as well.
Putting the leftovers on the bottom of your library might work (and is still not quite as strong as Scry X). I was aiming this for a power level where you'd use it when you don't need the land [anymore], and rarely before. (If it's strong enough players sack it even when they could use the land, we'll sometimes make them land-screw themselves and that's bad business).
DeleteI would expect this to be played as-is in any control deck less than three or four colors and in aggro decks of a single color.
It's not a bad scry. It's a bad Vampiric Tutor, and it's more or less free, since it comes on an ETBT land. This is really, really strong.
DeleteIt's quite strong.
DeleteEr, ETB untapped land. Yeah.
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