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[Gren]

Card of the Day for Thursday, April 26th 2012

Card Name »  Reforge the Soul
Mana Cost » 3RR

Expansion » Avacyn Reborn

Type » Sorcery

Card Text » Each player discards his or her hand and draws seven cards.

Miracle 1R

Rulings »

• None

Legal in »  NYR

Gren's Thoughts » Here's something I've been waiting for red for a long time. A little bit of acceleration. Discard your hand and draw seven fresh. Well, if you don't really have much of a hand, bam. Even better, if your hand is empty, you draw this, you can play it for cheap. I like this, and even the normal cost isn't too bad.

Art » That soul is too hot to handle.

Notes » Final week for AVR spoilers. Spells, lands, whatever else this week. If I feel like doing a creature, well then I'll do a creature.

[Ritokure]

Hmm... yeah, that's a hard card to rate. That Miracle cost is awesome, but emptying your hand fast enough for you to actually get some advantage and relying on topdecking this is kind of like waiting for... well, a miracle. Wheel of Fortune's charm has always been being able to control exactly when to fill everyone's hands in order to shatter any resemblance of symmetry of the card on a million pieces. Not being able to cast anything Instant-speed before casting this is a real bummer as well.
But even then, that non-Miracle cost is still pretty affordable. We've seen Blue counterparts of this card with similar mana costs sometimes before already (oftenly with an additional but not always desireable grave-emptying effect), and a Red one at 5 and with an alternate cost is a good deal. To top it off, we'll all have to agree that emptying your hand very fast is kind of a Red thing, so even a Colorshifted Time Reversal is still much better than Time Reversal. And bonus points for not being a Mythic as well.



EFF: 8/10
ART: 9/10 (The return of the Alpha Fire Elemental? Maaaaybe >.>)

[Gerdat14]

well... if I was running Red Beatdown, had my mana all set up but was running low on resources a lot (which happens with all of my builds on purpose, btw) i would prolly main this at 2 or 3. I might even side one if i find that i'm a bit too dependent on the miracle cost. I like it. Oh, and even though it refills both players hands, if you play someone with a bad pokerface, you can REALLY screw them over with this. Just my noobish thoughts.

[Dragonheart91]

I like this card a lot. It seems playable as the top of the curve in a burn deck and is probably going to see plenty of use in a variety of combo decks. It's just a neat design and the miracle cost feels like a nice bonus instead of something the card was built around.

[Siyanor]

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Not being able to cast anything Instant-speed before casting this

Who says you can't?

Definitely playable, even good. You don't necessarily WANT to cast it for its miracle cost every time, but it's available if you do need it, and the regular 5 CMC isn't that bad.

Edited by Siyanor, 27 April 2012 - 01:23 AM.

[Ritokure]

Siyanor, on 27 April 2012 - 01:23 AM, said:

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Not being able to cast anything Instant-speed before casting this

Who says you can't?

I meant to stick a "non-" there, but I accidentally the whole thing.

Edited by Ritokure, 27 April 2012 - 11:09 AM.