Temporal Seizure, cuz its fun to screw with rules

[GerryMander]

Temporal Seizure
{U}
Instant
Target player skips his or her next phase. (The phases are untap phase, upkeep phase, main phase, combat phase, and end phase)


CURRENT WORDING:

Temporal Seizure
2U
Instant
Choose draw step, main phase, or combat phase. Target player skips each instance of the chosen step or phase this turn.

CHANGES:
-Goober's wording
-now it's Jacob's wording
-{2}{U} mana cost *Ephraim*

[Ephraim]

Actually, if I remember correctly, untap and upkeep are both steps in the Beginning Phase (which also contains the draw step.)

Also, what exactly happens if you cause somebody to skip their end phase? Does their turn...not end?

Sorry, Gerry, fun idea, but I don't think this will work, ever.

[GerryMander]

well, if this particular idea won't work, I think I know a slight variation that may work.

Target player skips his or her begining phase.

[goober]

300.1. A turn consists of five phases, in this order: beginning, precombat main, combat, postcombat main, and end.

Change it to

Target player skips his or her next phase, if the end phase is skipped this way, end the turn.

[Jacob Orlove]

Wording stolen from Fatespinner:

Choose draw step, main phase, or combat phase. Target player skips each instance of the chosen step or phase this turn.

[GerryMander]

I am using goober's wording

[Ephraim]

I prefer Orlove's idea. Making somebody skip their entire beginning phase is grotesquely wrong. The fact that this requires a workaround to prevent it from screwing with the end phase is inelegant. It does almost nothing to main phases, which is cumbersome, and it can also halt combat, which is too much for this mana cost.

[GerryMander]

ok, i'll use jacob's wording.

[Laurie Cheers]

I think this cost is very high for a Holy Day/Fatigue/anti-sorcery effect.

I'd suggest including untap:

Choose untap step, draw step, main phase or combat phase. Target player skips each instance of the chosen step or phase during his or her next turn.

(It has to be "during his or her next turn" to skip the untap step.)

[Ephraim]

I don't think it needs to include untap phase. Yosei, the Morning Star establishes that White is the colour that prevents untap steps outright. However, it would be fair to cost this at .

[GerryMander]

it is then!

[Pizzatog]

Seeing that the phase altering cards haven't seen too much play (except eon hub in janky casual decks) Id actually make it cantrip to give it an added bonus. Its a very blue way of saying now you have 1 less card advantage than me.

[outta_names]

Why couldn't this be white?
Given that White is looking for 'rules-altering' effects, and looking to open up some areas of design space, I think this is exactly the kind of card that could be blue, but should be white.
-Dave

[Ephraim]

It's blue because it's the effect of a blue creature in sorcery form. See Fatespinner, the card that inspired the current ability of this card.

[GerryMander]

I wish people would keep their "white" promoting out of my blue abilities!

Was this supposed to be a sorcery?  I wanted to keep this an instant...

I am guna give this a 10 hour clock to make sure this is ok as an instant...

[Ephraim]

Sorry, I didn't bother to scroll up to see whether it was an instant or a sorcery. I assumed sorcery, but I was wrong. I have no problem with this being an instant.

[Matt]

Closed and added.[/color]