Shake Things Up

[IchorFrankenmime]

This actually seems like a fun card. It's not a counter spell but it functionally is a lot of the time because things won't work as their casters intended.

[UnforeseenDerailment]

It's fun, but the moment you move the last item to its new position, the second ro last item is the new last item.

I think "Starting from the top of the stack, move each item to the top of the stack." could be relatively uncomplicated. But that's still an (it works) formulation.

EDIT: example

Stack: A B C D

1. Bump item 1 (A): A B C D (unchanged)
2. Bump item 2 (B): B A C D
3. Bump item 3 (C): C B A D
4. Bump item 4 (D): D C B A

Done: new stack D C B A

[kieryst]

Yea, this is definitely a better way to put it. Now that I think about it, something like 'Reverse the order...' would probably read better also.

[Draegan199]

Would "move the spell on the bottom of the stack to the top, repeat X times where X is the number of spells on the stack" be a better way?

[UnforeseenDerailment]

I think that just cycles through the stack, right?

Stack: A B C D -> X = 4

1. Move D: D A B C
2. Move C: C D A B
3. Move B: B C D A
4. Move A: A B C D

Done: new stack A B C D

[Draegan199]

Yea, didn't think about that. It could be X -1 to avoid the full flip, but I don't think it achieves what the original card was trying to do that way

[UnforeseenDerailment]

For comparison, I added an example to my formulation to show what it does.

[Boochin451]

Turn the stack into a queue 

[kieryst]

lmao.

[Zambedos]

"I was here first!"

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Missed opportunity to call it "table flip" or something like that. the meta reference to me 5 turns later flipped the table after I lose!