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I am surprised this one hasn't gotten it's own thread yet: Distant Memories   Sorcery Search your library for a card, exile it, then shuffle your library. An opponent may have you put that card into your hand. If no player does, you draw three cards.  When played along side wishes, it seems like a win/win. |
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« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2011, 03:17:42 pm » |
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It's a sorcery, it costs 4, wishes can't get things from the exile zone, and at least 50% of what you tutor for in Vintage is a one-of in your deck. Why would I run this when I can run Demonic Tutor Vampiric Tutor Gifts Ungiven Mystical Tutor Intuition etc.... Even Diabolic Tutor at  is better than this, since Vintage cards are generally strong enough that you want the one you're tutoring for. It does pitch to FoW though.... sorry, this card is (IMHO) unplayable outside of EDH, and not really that good there either. |
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« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2011, 03:24:50 pm » |
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Agreed. This is absolutely worst than even Concentrate, any good player will give you the draw 3 instead of the card you tutored for, then you will have lost one of the best cards in your deck. If they do give you that card, it's because they have a really good answer to it and you just spent a 4 mana tutor for a card that will not do anything.
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« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2011, 03:26:41 pm » |
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Oh boy... I forgot about not being able to Wish from Exile.
It didn't look that great, but I thought it was worth thinking about.
And I did consider Diabolic against this.
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« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2011, 03:31:08 pm » |
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At  , the card becomes a cute thought experiment. At its present cost, it's not Vintage playable. |
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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2011, 04:00:59 pm » |
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Yah this is the same cost as Jace and I can't imagine why it would be a better play than Jace.
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2011, 04:15:05 pm » |
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I was thinking it's like a brain damaged younger brother to Gifts, but I can the analogy working on Jace.
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I suppose it's mostly the thought that this format is just one big Mistake; and not even a very sophisticated one at that.
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2011, 04:39:29 pm » |
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Honestly compare this to concentrate. With concentrate they don't get a choice nor do you exile your best card. And concentrate sees no play.
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2011, 06:40:09 pm » |
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It's a hybrid of Concentrate and Diabolic Tutor. Except that your opponent chooses which you get. Neither card sees play in Vintage, and this one won't either.
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2011, 06:41:15 pm » |
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I think it's a Library of Lat-Nam which costs one less but has a slightly worse effect.
But in either case, it isn't Vintage material.
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« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2011, 12:41:56 pm » |
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To tell you something worse, why is this card a rare? I don't want to open a booster pack to find this being the card I pull.. Wizards must have really put all their thought process into Blightsteel Colossus.
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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2011, 10:00:00 am » |
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To tell you something worse, why is this card a rare? I don't want to open a booster pack to find this being the card I pull.. Wizards must have really put all their thought process into Blightsteel Colossus.
I have a rules question - does the card get revealed? IF not, then you can bluff them into giving you three cards, and thinning your deck by one. A definite pitch-tester, if so. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2011, 10:17:40 am » |
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I have a rules question - does the card get revealed? IF not, then you can bluff them into giving you three cards, and thinning your deck by one. A definite pitch-tester, if so.
Exile zone is a public zone, so all cards in there are visible to everybody. Unless you exile them face down (like Memory Jar) |
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2011, 09:48:53 am » |
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To tell you something worse, why is this card a rare? I don't want to open a booster pack to find this being the card I pull.. Wizards must have really put all their thought process into Blightsteel Colossus.
Listening to WotC canned answers to complaints about bad rares, it's rare because : - it's "complicated" - it's a "skill tester" - you need bad cards to make good cards look good at every rarity - they have to design cards for every demographic at every rarity None of which makes any sense.  |
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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2011, 10:05:29 am » |
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We already have Fact or Fiction.
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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2011, 12:23:51 pm » |
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AFAIK cards in the exile zone are always face up.
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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2011, 01:03:20 pm » |
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AFAIK cards in the exile zone are always face up. This was answered correctly just three posts ago. Exile zone is a public zone, so all cards in there are visible to everybody. Unless you exile them face down (like Memory Jar) |
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I suppose it's mostly the thought that this format is just one big Mistake; and not even a very sophisticated one at that.
Much like humanity itself. |
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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2011, 03:31:41 pm » |
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I have a rules question - does the card get revealed? IF not, then you can bluff them into giving you three cards, and thinning your deck by one. A definite pitch-tester, if so. It's always face up unless the card specifically says face down. |
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