I was just browsing through MWS, and stumbled upon this card: Three Wishes. So essentially, for any deck that can play the 3 spells it draws, it's basically a draw 3 for 3, at instant speed. Why has this card never been considered for decks like High Tide/Spiral Tide, and possibly other decks?
This card seems really good, but I cannot determine how to best use it.
I actually used it years back in Solidarity. I have no idea what the rest of that list was, but I remember it working well next to the rest of the draw package.
I still have them in my trade binder, and try to convince everyone that they need them.
I played them in Solidarity as well. 4 Meditate, 2-3 Three Wishes MD, 1 Three Wishes SB was all the draw engine I needed. Not even Flash of Insight was necessary. If I had to play Spiral Tide, I'd run it over Meditate any time.
Cards like this one is good only during the combo turn, right when you started going off after casting multiple tides/turnabout. The problem is, it competes with Cunning Wish/Meditate/Intuition slot and it's worse than Meditate since it draws 1 less card. 3 cc means you'll be casting this by turn 3 only and at that point I would be better off wishing for x-card than expose the top cards of my library to any shenanigans.
What about other decks that can use the cards immediately, like Affinity? I realize 1UU is a bit pricey there. What about decks that don't mind having cards go into its graveyard, like some sort of Loam deck? It just seems like 1UU to essentially draw 3 cards, where the drawback of putting any unused ones in the graveyard, is not nearly as detrimental as skipping the next turn, etc.
The card looks interesting to me. Maybe it is crap. I'm just suprised I've never seen it suggested anywhere before.
Last edited by Hanni; 08-28-2011 at 05:03 PM.
It was played years ago, but Wizards printed Ideas Unbound and every player that can use Three Wishes forgot it.
I remember playing this card in Prosperous Bloom.
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It was a fairly good card for it's time, it just got outclassed a little bit. Every time you build a deck with it in it, you eventually tune and tune and it's one of the ones that just barely gets nudged out. Great card though. I always had a soft spot for it. It does like a style like Solidarity though, I played it in that deck for a bit until I found a 4th meditate.
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