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[Gren]

Card of the Day for Monday, April 8th 2012

Card Name »  Temporal Mastery
Mana Cost » 5UU

Expansion » Avacyn Reborn

Type » Sorcery

Card Text » Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.

Miracle 1U (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Rulings »

• None

Legal in »  NYR

Gren's Thoughts » ...wait, what? This card is stupid... and I mean stupidly powerful. Miracle is a mechanic that is going to be abused with Sensei's and many others. This card is just retarded falling under the same color as them. I can expect this one to be a big chunk of change once AVR hits the stores.

Art » It's an hourglass, I've seen that somewhere before.

Notes » Week 1 Spoilers begins for AVR. This set is going to be creamy.

[Dragonheart91]

Yup. That's a Time Walk reprint. I'm not sure how good it will be in standard unless we get some library/hand manipulation other than Ponder, but it's instantly bannable in Legacy. I'm debating whether this is worth playing over Time Warp in my Riku EDH deck. (Tutor it with Mystic or Personal tutor and then draw it next turn with Riku to Time Stretch for 1UUR.)

[The Angel Of Elysium]

Oh fuuuuuuck. Broken card is so incredibly broken.

[Siyanor]

Every card in AVR is broken so far. This is just MORE broken.

[Ritokure]

OK, about this card. Through the day, I went on a deep philosophical analysis on whether this card is broken or not. First, I remembered that if you do happen to draw it and not trigger Miracle, then it's very dead in most decks. Second, I remembered that not being able to control when you get an extra turn is more of a pain than it seems. Without proper planning, in some cases, you're maybe getting a blue Explore with benefits. Third, Miracle in blue is kind of weird because they are the guys that can manipulate the topdeck early in the game, but can draw extra stuff in midgame, which is around the time you would want to get an extra turn.
Then I remembered that holy crap they pretty much reprinted funking Time Walk. No matter how many bells or whistles they throw at it, it's still Time. Friggin'. Walk.


EFF: 10/10
ART: 8/10 (Kinda trippy, but still a hourglass)

Edited by Ritokure, 09 April 2012 - 04:19 PM.

[kakashipwnzor]

Play Temporal Mastery for Miracle cost. Draw into another Temporal Mastery. Play Temporal Mastery for Miracle. Repeat 4 times. Behold, turn 3, and you're looking at at least 5 land on your side of the field.

[n00bdragon]

Divining Top is banned for a reason. This is still lolbroken with Brainstorm but no one cares about legacy. Other than that it's a niche rare at nest.

[Siyanor]

...Top is only banned in Modern, n00bdragon. The other formats it's not legal in, it's because it's too old, not because it's banned.

Also, what's with people thinking no one plays the most commonly played format?

Edited by Siyanor, 09 April 2012 - 08:17 PM.

[n00bdragon]

Kitchen table magic is not Legacy. Legacy is a format defined by Wizards of the Coast for use in structured events. Legacy tournaments are not the most common, not even in a shadow of a sliver of 1%. And if people are playing this with Brainstorm at your kitchen table you need to either slap them or just pull out your own ancient old trollface blue decks because there's no hope for your table to ever have fun again.

[Siyanor]

I'm sorry, I forgot that most people play MTG at tournaments. Oh wait. They don't. And if you ARE talking about tournaments, you need not mention any formats besides Standard Constructed and Draft since all the other formats are so extremely rare in tournaments, so Top being banned makes no sense in that context either.

Also, I don't quite understand your definition of "fun." Which dictionary are you using?

[The Angel Of Elysium]

I don't know about you, but my definition of fun isn't: "Play a one-sided game with myself then get mad when my opponent tries to cast something."

[Siyanor]

You do realize that in the games I play, EVERYONE has access to broken cards? The games aren't one-sided.

[The Angel Of Elysium]

Games involving blue decks are always one sided.

Unless all decks are blue. In which case it becomes "who can force all of their opponents to tap out first" in which case the Faeries wielder is king.

[Siyanor]

You clearly haven't been playing MTG very long...

[The Angel Of Elysium]

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had to be playing since 1993 to understand how the color pie works. Are you going to educate me on Blue Aggro now? Maybe throw Illusions and Faeries at me? Or Progenitus Countertop?

Don't presume to know a goddamn thing about my knowledge.

[Siyanor]

...Ok, since apparently you think I'M the one making assumptions here and not you, I'm now going to begin making assumptions and assume that you have NEVER played MTG in your entire life.

I also blocked you, so don't bother responding with more ignorant comments.

Edited by Siyanor, 10 April 2012 - 11:49 AM.

[The Angel Of Elysium]

>I'm not making assumptions
>You clearly haven't been playing long

Come on man, you're committed now, don t back down.

[kakashipwnzor]

Alright.

That's it.

Break it up before I have to start getting you two in trouble.

Shame on both of you, you know better. *waggles finger*

[Gren]

See, this is why I shouldn't have a full time job, cause people can't control themselves. I'm also going to lock this to prevent further flaming. Warning you both, next time it will be a hard increase to your warn level.

If you wish to discuss more about the card and not about how lolOP or one-sided blue is in whatever format, then give me some reasons to reopen this in a PM. Until then, good day sirs.