So what you guys really want, is for this ability never to be playable in any format other than standard...
No, but you are simply failing to recognize that
for any card to be printable, it must not break Standard. Part of the challenge is making an idea that is useful to us,
without wrecking the biggest format in the game.
Since when has snuff out been the template for anything...and silver bordered??? Please at least read the prior posts.
The point is the same one stated by many people, many times before. You are suggesting a much better version of CARD X. More often than not, it means the new card is too strong. It is you who needs to read back, because you have repeatedly violated this rule, despite it being pointed out ad nauseum.
Color pie- I can understand this comment. This seems more like a white ability to me as well. But I think blue can have this ability as well, it is not a hard destroy effect and blue is the color of cunning and wizardry: polymorphing a permanent into something much less menacing is already in the blue color pie.
This is, as stated before,
even better than a hard destroy effect (which you at least seem to recognize as being out of color for blue). Compare Ovinize/Humility, like we said. It does something similar, but only to creatures, and only temporary. If you want a more powerful effect, you need to justify it with a comparable drawback, such as high mana cost.
Making the alternate cost "remove the top 10 cards of your library" or "lose 7 life" is prohibitive. A goyf would nor need to hit you too many times before this card would suck. PS- if remove 10 cards is too bad if the benefit is "draw 7 cards" nailing 1 opposing card is not altogether problematic.
You a simply wrong here. Tezz would cry tears of joy to have FoW 5-8, even at the cost of RFG 10 or 7 life. Either drawback is painful, but preferable to your opponent resolving the second half of Key/Vault. Your last sentence in the post simply did not make sense. If that was meant to be a Diminishing Returns reference, you absolutely fail at making parallels.
suggestions would help instead of skepticism, and removing power level of the ability is a no go as it would make the card completely unrecognizable.
Translation: "I want to make something broken, why won't you let me?"
We've been trying to tell you for two pages now why your card is completely unreasonable. If you would actually address the concerns presented instead of just making newer and dumber versions that are equally unprintable and still violate the same card creation principles, maybe you'd see some progress here instead of continually bashing your head into a brick wall. You need to either do that or accept that your idea is a failure and let it go.
