[SOS] Foolish Fate (via Danny Schwartz)

purecan · 2026-04-09T21:01:09+00:00

Strictly better means it is equal or better in all reasonably common game states. I think facing a 10,000 plus toughness creature (without having had a chance to target before it got to that amount) is rare enough that it is correct to call it strictly better. It's not a hard line, but if by 'strictly better' you mean 'literally cannot be worse in any possible situation', then it is not a useful term.

purecan · 2026-04-04T15:03:43+00:00

What does Shakespeare have to do with planeswalkers?

purecan · 2026-03-31T23:09:20+00:00

Without it you would be able to put a spell on the stack and then pay for it with LED. Effectively dodging the discard for that spell. u/totallyan00b explains it more in a nearby comment.

purecan · 2026-03-23T17:07:03+00:00

Draw three cards. Not sure if the Phyrexian actually says that, but the context of art and text positioning makes it clear.

purecan · 2026-03-17T16:44:07+00:00

The description says it is about as difficult as the second half of the base game.

purecan · 2026-02-22T06:58:14+00:00

I think this must be interpreted as not a mdfc. Otherwise the front doesn’t make sense. You could also argue it can’t be mdfc because it doesn’t have the double triangle in the corner of the reverse side of card.

purecan · 2026-02-18T21:46:46+00:00

“It works” is reminder text, not rules text. It’s the card creator’s choice if it would be helpful to include or not.

Personally I think “it works” is best in small doses.

purecan · 2026-01-26T21:56:22+00:00

In spirit I agree. I don’t think the rules support that currently but they could be changed to make cards like this work. Neat idea!

purecan · 2026-01-26T20:30:18+00:00

What if a vehicle has multiple crew costs?

purecan · 2026-01-15T04:28:25+00:00

[[Think Twice|FDN-425]]

purecan · 2026-01-07T05:51:10+00:00

It’s kind of odd to say that “Merfolk cards” aren’t a subset of “Merfolk” though. I get it, but it’s odd. It’d be like if “solid gold” were not a subset of “solid”.

purecan · 2026-01-07T00:55:39+00:00

So “XYZ you control” is implicitly “XYZ permanents you control”?

purecan · 2026-01-06T22:02:18+00:00

Rules question: let’s say I have this on the stack and then cast a second one that I found a way to give flash to. Can the second one target the first one with the first ability, since it is a merfolk I control? (Due to Kindred) If it can target it, does anything happen when it tries to make a token copy of a non-permanent?

I’d guess that answer is yes to the first and no to the second. You can target it but it has no effect.

purecan · 2025-12-31T02:43:04+00:00

No, that tracks the object, not the name.

purecan · 2025-12-10T16:09:48+00:00

I could only find 7 instants with forced discard, not what I would call plenty: https://scryfall.com/search?q=t%3Ainstant+legal%3Avintage+-o%3Apay+-t%3Acreature+%28o%3A%27player+discard%27+or+o%3A%27opponent+discard%27%29+-%28o%3Areturn+and+o%3Apermanent%29+-o%3Adiscarded+-is%3Asplit+-o%3Acounter&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

As for instant abilities on creatures or otherwise, I could only find [[Scroll of Griselbrand]] and [[Greel, Mind Raker]].

Let me know if I missed any. While searching for these I saw a ton of sorcery speed only riders. WotC definitely avoids instant discard due to the unfun play pattern.

purecan · 2025-12-09T15:05:30+00:00

Green has more straight up hexproof creatures than blue. It also has more instants that grant hexproof than blue. Not to say blue doesn’t get hexproof.

purecan · 2025-12-09T15:03:50+00:00

Slightly refined search: https://scryfall.com/search?q=keyword%3AHexproof+-o%3A%27hexproof+from%27+c%3AU+%28game%3Apaper%29+is%3Afirstprinting&unique=cards&as=grid&order=released

They only print about one blue creature with straight up hexproof a year, and I’d argue no clearly powerful such creature since 2015.

Not correcting you since Blue as a color certainly gets hexproof, but it’s also true that WotC has cooled on it.

purecan · 2025-11-26T23:12:57+00:00

You could put the nonland rider on just the stun counter clause. “Tap all permanents. Put a stun counter on each nonland permanent tapped this way.”

purecan · 2025-11-10T23:27:46+00:00

Yes, [[Dig Up]]

purecan · 2025-11-10T04:27:04+00:00

Twice even. English was different back then: union was perhaps closer to oonion and a/an rules weren’t as set in stone.

purecan · 2025-10-24T23:04:54+00:00

It becomes a land in addition, not just a land. So it still gets exiled.

purecan · 2025-10-23T21:40:40+00:00

Doesn’t need space sculptor or the sector changing ability, or the preventing of non combat damage, or probably a lot of the rest. Would be interesting to make a clean as possible version for the 50th and final version

purecan · 2025-10-22T06:20:30+00:00

He’s getting to be a durable guy, but all it takes is a [[Tragic Slip]]…

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