Vindicate and Anguished Unmaking exist. I'd say having your opponent fetch a land is much more "green" than "white". Golgari is The Rock, and The Rock gets good cards.
My god guys...
BR reanimator spending 2 mana to tutor a reanimation spell, instead of running more reanimation spells.
Al the deck is about is to reanimate asap, and this card (at beast) requires 1 extra mana on turn 2 just to not actually skip turn 2, just to tutor reanimate (which is the best reanimation spell because it costs 1 mana, every other reanimation spell is superior if you can afford to spend more than 1, you could run up to 20 reanimation spells if you are willing to pay up to 3)
"You either die a Onesto-Player, or live long enough to see yourself become a Dredger"
Giving them a land as they resolve their Jace is a lot better option than holding abrupt decay and letting them Jace more each time and get further behind, this is a 2 mana instant speed answer to Jace while most other answers are 3 mana sorcery's. This hits bigger creatures too like Angler and against decks like Delver this can strip mine them as they don't play basics, is also fine against lands or Sneak and Show where Decay is just pretty meh to bad (kills Boseju too if you're BUG).
If you're on a combo deck like Reanimator or Turbo Depths then Decay misses Karakas/Leylines.
This is untrue, is common to just slam jace against shardless while not being ahead, just even, and start getting value from there.
With this card around you can't just play jace on an empty board and win from there, and that was one of the easiest ways to beat BUG in general.
It's also quite common to play jace in a board state in which is not easy to just remove it, shardless often does not have enough board to answer a jace + plowshares for example, and is likely (or was i guess) to lose if the opponent untaps with a jace on board
"You either die a Onesto-Player, or live long enough to see yourself become a Dredger"
Early one morning while making the round,
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down;
I went right home and I went to bed,
I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head.
Funny story, it also tutors up Entomb. That's a spell that doesn't have 20 variants. If you're trying to be resilient, you can t1 Land + Petal/Mox > Looting > Ritual > Tutor for either Reanimate (if you don't have it) or Entomb so you can set up a 2nd combo if the first is dealt with by Surgical/etc. Or you get Duress/Thoughtseize to protect your t2 Reanimate. Or you grab Surgical Extraction on the play in the mirror or against Dredge. It provides lines of play that will be more complicated, but potentially better.
Maybe I was wrong, this isn't Demonic Tutor. It's closer to Burning Wish, where you either get your kill or you get protection/utility to work around hate.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
Rain of Notions is interesting for Standard/Modern
1UB
Sorcery
Surveil 2, draw 2, take 2 damage
Common
It's effect is basically a better Glimmer of Genius for 1 less mana. Harder to cast and a Sorcery tho, so, who knows. Seems like it'll be a player in Std at least, could see fringe play in Modern.
So you can use this to find Entomb (it can’t find Looting) to put something in the yard...which would mean a creature is already in the graveyard anyway to be reanimated, accomplishing pretty much nothing. And if you have the mana to cast this, why in the world would you want to tutor for Dark Ritual?
Card is straight garbage, moving on.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
Early one morning while making the round,
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down;
I went right home and I went to bed,
I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head.
Fair statement. It was just the first deck to come to mind for me. Does it do something? Yes. Is it good enough to change the already established formula? No. One thing that I've noticed is that 2 mana tutors find a way to be useful in something, given enough time. Look at Sylvan Scrying, not a legacy card really until it became a niche tutor in Depths. It just needs the right enabler (good afternoon Infernal Tutor + Lion's Eye Diamond.)
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
I don't think this card will be playable until the black dryad arbor is printed. You really need 0-cost black spells for this to make sense in your deck and right now the only ones are living end which doesn't care about being in your hand and slaughter pact which isn't too playable.
I'm not sure about the zero requirement. It does scale up, ie Putrid Imp could enable bigger targets. I'm not sure what those targets would be, but it's a new interaction that has potential. We're used to legacy being broken with free/cheap things to do with our decks, but sometimes it doesn't add up.
This card is probably close to the power level of Shadow of the Grave. Niche, to be certain, and without a clear enabler to make a competitive deck. The eternal optimist in me wants to include: 'Yet'.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
it could see play in death's shadow maybe you have street wraith 2cc tutor shadow or a removal/fatal push/seize might not be so bad
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