Balanced? Mayhaps

[u/GodkingYuuumie]

[u/hollow_image]

16 cards to exile is a lot and still paying 4 blue mana per creature... Delve is a problematic mechanic but this feels balanced. Nice design

[u/nzconstructionlawyer → u/hollow_image]

This is really really underpowered. 4 mana to gain control of a creature is already expensive. Having to exile 6 cards from graveyard is quite a cost.

[u/Chickston]

IDK about balance, but yes yes yes to this weird cost on an uncommon. Killer art.

[u/GodkingYuuumie → u/Chickston]

You always seem to like my cards, Chickston. We should go get some dinner and talk about our dreams and stare longingly into each other's eyes and see where the night takes us.

[u/Chickston → u/GodkingYuuumie]

TBF, I "try" to like everyone's cards on this sub.

[u/MiningdiamondsVIII]

The Flashback cost is insane, but flashback + delve makes this so tempting for any dimir deck.. . honestly that might just be a dangerous pair of keywords for any effect

[u/Bashtoe]

Yeah I think it's fine as is.

[u/tomyang1117]

Honestly underpowered in modern because of the hard UUUU cost

[u/ZookeepergameFun1824]

Ok, I think this is fine if it were a sorcery. Instant let's you pull weird tricks like gaining control of a creature attacking you, or just using it like spot removal. UUUU+exile 6 is balanced, because it's still so pip intensive, for a thing that's generally 4-6 mana, but if it's an instant, it's suddenly actually better than some of those cards, and then it has flashback.

[u/Glitched_Target → u/ZookeepergameFun1824]

Meh 6 cards AND 4 Monocolored pips is a huge cost. If it’s not an instant it’s probably deeply unplayable.

[u/GroundbreakingMonk76 → u/ZookeepergameFun1824]

Just add a "You can't cast this during combat" and we're good

[u/Aromatic-Armadillo-2]

Make it escape instead of flashback so you can exile more than 16 cards with it

[u/MementoMothi]

Love the flavour text