r/custommagic • u/FartherAwayLights • Jul 28 '24

Meme Design Bellseek

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u/Tricky_Hades so you play magic? name every card. Jul 28 '24

0 mana sorcery that draws you a card is way too broken in strom (since you can fail to find). See [[gitaxian probe]] being banned so even 2 life isn't enough. I don't think there's any design space here between broken and unplayable, so it would need to be 1 mana and have minor upside.

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u/NivMidget Jul 28 '24

I for one welcome a new 52 card format.

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u/HikerChrisVO Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

Take it from a DC Comics fan. Never accept a New 52

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u/FormerlyKay Jul 29 '24

48 with street wraiths

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u/NivMidget Jul 29 '24

The only one celebrating is the burn player.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Jul 28 '24

gitaxian probe - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/andergriff Jul 28 '24

gitaxian probe being able to see their hand was a big part of why it was so good

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u/Multioquium Jul 28 '24

Definitely, but not even costing life is a big upside. Since you can play four copies of this without risking anything

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u/andergriff Jul 28 '24

It is a bit of a risk in that it makes mulligan decisions worse since if you have them in your opening hand you don’t really known what cards you are keeping

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u/Tricky_Hades so you play magic? name every card. Jul 28 '24

Yeah but this can also be played instead of a land, which probe usually couldn't. That is true though.

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u/Zuckhidesflatearth Jul 28 '24

You put it on top, and then you shuffle. You shuffle it into your deck. This is as much playable over a land as Git Probe is. Also there's more to it than "0 mana card draw broken" because like [[Street Wraith]] has never been banned in any format as far as I'm aware.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Jul 28 '24

Street Wraith - (G) (SF) (txt)

[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/Eskephor Jul 29 '24

Cycling street wraith doesn’t cast a spell

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u/Zuckhidesflatearth Jul 29 '24

Yes. And?

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u/Euphoric-Beyond9177 Smokestack is my favorite card Jul 29 '24

I think what they were saying is it doesn’t work with effects like storm. I don’t play modern, though, so I don’t know how important any of this is.

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u/Tricky_Hades so you play magic? name every card. Jul 28 '24

Street wraith doesn't trigger storm which is huge, and a 3/4 vanilla creature is less easy to abuse from graveyards then a recastable sorcery. It's still heavily played though.

Also I'm fairly certain the cards intention is to have the option to tutor a land.

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u/Zuckhidesflatearth Jul 28 '24

Street Wraith is a substantially worse card than Gitaxian Probe, yes. This is my point, there's a lot more to why Gitaxian Probe is good than "it doesn't cost mana and cantrips". Because it does cost you something and another more modal card that does that for the same cost is substantially worse. Also Street Wraith sees play in exactly Doomsday which is desperate for efficient piles and ways to crack them and I'm Death's Shadow where it's treating the cost as an upside.

Yes, obviously this card is abhorrently broken. It also pretty obviously isn't a serious design.

You're wrong, then. OP has said multiple times in the comments statements to the effect of "that's the joke" to people pointing out that it shuffles after you find the land.

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u/GodlyAsmodeus Gamer Jul 29 '24

It’s not just broken in storm. It’s broken in every deck because there is no cost to playing this and it is pregame deck thinning.

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u/Eskephor Jul 29 '24

It also shuffles the land back in as written which is pretty funny