Song of Orpheus

[stolen]

Song of Orpheus
{1}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Until the end of your next turn, creatures cannot attack, and players cannot play spells or activated abilities.
"As he sang these tender strains, Tantalus stopped for a moment his efforts for water; Ixion's wheel stood still; and Sisyphus sat on his rock to listen.  Then for the first time, it is said, the cheeks of the Furies were wet with tears."

Clearly, this is based off the myth of Orpheus.  The ability might be a bit out of color for Black (more White, really), but Black and White have a kind of twisted unity where, flavor permitting (and I think it does, here), their domains sometimes overlap.  And unlike Orim's Chant, this wipes out the opponent's turn and then your turn again.  Which might just make it useless.  It could be, "until the beginning of your next turn" or something like that, maybe with "you can only play ~this~ during your pre-combat main phase."  But that's too many words.  Meh.  I just thought it would be a cool card.

Current Wording:

Song of Orpheus
{1}{B}{B}
Sorcery
Until the end of your next turn, creatures cannot attack, and players cannot play spells or activated abilities.
"As he sang these tender strains, Tantalus stopped for a moment his efforts for water; Ixion's wheel stood still; and Sisyphus sat on his rock to listen.  Then for the first time, it is said, the cheeks of the Furies were wet with tears."

[Marco]

Did my Apostle of Peace card inspire you to create this? (What is it with people using my card ideas lately...?) I think this is very similar to Peace Talks. I don't think the effect is black at all. And, despite my love of mythology, I don't fully understand the flavor behind this card.

[Jacob Orlove]

I love the idea of making a card with that name, but I don't really like the color or ability.

[Matt]

Isn't that flavor text from the sandman? If so, it needs to be attributed as such.

[TheWellknownBrownie]

This is completely out of synch with the color wheel. I understand that it's for flavor reasons, but the time when flavor trumped mechanics is gone. Besides, it's not even that accurate; the Underworld was Black, but Orpheus wasn't. White makes as much sense (well, Orpheus was more likely Red, but we can let it slide).

[stolen]

To respond to all of you:
No, yes, right, okay, I was worried about that myself, perhaps, I refuse to accept that, I disagree.

So I really just liked the name, and I couldn't think of anything more fitting for the ability.  Peace Talks alone is enough reason to close this.  The name can be saved for later.  I remember the story in Sandman, but if the quote matches that's a coincidence.  And the card isn't Orpheus, it's his song, after he's failed and before he's torn to pieces.  If you think he should be white or red, that's one thing, but I think this is okay, although it could be white too.  But that's irrelevant anyway.  This is too similar to Peace Talks so it either changes or goes, and I can't think of a good change.

[Jacob Orlove]

Actually the song is from after Eurydice died, but before he won her back. He got torn apart several plot points later.

Anyway, closed.