Creature – Human Serf (U)
Whenever you discard a card, scry 1.
Cleaning up behind the master's many nightly meetings Ayno knew quite a lot more about the estate's dark secrets than he let on.
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More than that, it also appears to stack. Multiple instances of futuresight let's you looks at that many of the top cards. The main issue with the mechanic is the potential for people to rearrange their cards after looking at them.
Yeah, I suspected as much, that kind of breaks the game.Ink-Treader wrote: ↑4 years agoMore than that, it also appears to stack. Multiple instances of futuresight let's you looks at that many of the top cards. The main issue with the mechanic is the potential for people to rearrange their cards after looking at them.
I'd like to address that issue, but I don't see how it breaks the game.
No, because it specifically instructs you to put the cards back in the same order. Compare with Mirri's Guile, now imagine doing that but as a fully fledged mechanic on multiple cards. Yes, individually the mechanic only allows one, but as it is worded, it can quickly get out of hand if you have multiples. Mirri's Guile is rare for a reason. (It also really needs to be reprinted, it's not on the reserved list)SecretInfiltrator wrote: ↑4 years agoI'd like to address that issue, but I don't see how it breaks the game.
Is Orcish Spy causing that problem as well?
I don't understand how nonfunctional reminder text can break/unbreak the game.
Isn't that what scry is?Compare with Mirri's Guile, now imagine doing that but as a fully fledged mechanic on multiple cards.
The time should only be used up whenever the available information changes if you cannot reorder. I could imagine limiting the occasion you can look at your future in a way that reduces both potential for wasting time and cheating, but it would require some creatively written reminder text to keep the text length in check.void_nothing wrote: ↑4 years agoI REALLY like future. It seems deep and fun. But at the same time, it has a problem. Not a balance problem but a timewasting problem. Sensei's Divining Top was notorious for making turns take forever.
I think you are mixing up "scry" with "scry 1" here. Omenspeaker certainly has reminder text including "in any order".
The rules are clear on this: Looking means "just looking". That's why Otcish Spy works exactly the same without reminder text.
It would do fine in draft I think, after all, with 7 toughness, it's, well, tough.M00NSIDIAN wrote: ↑4 years agoHey, it has got 0 power, there's a good amount of things that can make creatures with power 2 or less unblockable for a turn. Not sure how doable it'd be in a draft (cause, y'know, no idea if those would be in the set...), but it's doable elsewhere pretty easily.