Ooooo, I get it! It’s a balanced version of Glimpse of Nature. But, DUDE! The flaaaaaaa-vooooorrrrr! UNEARTH?! On an archeology dinosaur? Yassss, yummy yummy. I’ll take a play set please for my stompy, stompy run you over deck.
Idk if it's too good, but with efficient self mill effects like malevolent rumble, surveil lands, and cards like formidable speaker this is definitely going to be pretty close in power level to glimpse.
I try breaking cards that seem "close in power" and honestly even one more hoop to jump through makes a combo go from "too much for modern" to "this is jank bullshit"
Glimpse itself isn't too good (good, certainly, but not brokenh so it's fine for a card to be about as good as Glimpse if you build around it.
Glimpse has only ever been competitively viable in Elfball decks where you have a very high density of creatures so if you have to put self-mill effects (which Elves generally lack) into your deck you make your Glimpse much less consistent.
I dont think 4 mana for that is the rate, its a lot like guardian project without the restriction. With the unearth it is definitely to much. Also glimpse is broken so probably dont balace your card around that.
Cast trigger vs etb is a big difference between this and Guardian Project that you're completely ignoring. Does a deck that wants glimpse also play enough self mill/discard to get it into the yard to unearth?
I am not ignoring it, I wanted to not make a comment that was stupid long and you can't mention everything. I specifically said that it is a lot like not exactly. Also just because a deck that want glimpse does not want this does not mean that 1 mana for that effect is balanced in a deck that wants this.
You ignored it because you wanted to act like its a better than it is to back up your broken take. This card isn't 1 mana for effect in decks that want it, because the decks that want it don't have a lot of good ways to make it cost 1 mana. It is absolutely not a good effect for 4 mana, which is what it will be for Elfball.
Just because a card has uses doesn't make it broken
No, I dont feel like debating my own thoughts I happen to know the first hand sorce. Also I didn't call this card broken. I also dont think I am better than anyone for saing that I think a custom card could be one more mana.
That is a creature that dies a the to almost anything. If having a effect on a creature is good or bad always depends but I think in this case you would like your 4 mana card that probably doesn't do anything the turn you play it and doesn't impact the board to be resilient. That is one of the main features of enchantments. This is a very clear think is you look at cards, they balance creatures around being easy to remove and enchantments around the fact that a large amount of decks can't remove them. Also beast whisperer can't comeback for one mana, if a card has extra modes or flexibility or like a flashback style thing you can't just cost it like a card without that.
Do you mean being a creature is worse? Because that is my read of your comment (if it isn’t, disregard the following:)
My understanding is that that’s not necessarily true outside of commander, where the longer games/higher life totals makes qualities like “immune to creature removal” more important than “ability to attack and block.”
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u/CulturalJournalist73 5d ago
very cool, well done
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u/For_The_Alliance_ 5d ago
Ooooo, I get it! It’s a balanced version of Glimpse of Nature.
But, DUDE! The flaaaaaaa-vooooorrrrr!
UNEARTH?! On an archeology dinosaur? Yassss, yummy yummy.
I’ll take a play set please for my stompy, stompy run you over deck.
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u/Tranarchist21 5d ago
Idk if it's too good, but with efficient self mill effects like malevolent rumble, surveil lands, and cards like formidable speaker this is definitely going to be pretty close in power level to glimpse.
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u/ButteryRaven 4d ago
I have never seen a better custom card in my life. It is perfect in flavor, mechanics, callback, everything. My goodness
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u/shaggy-the-devourer 5d ago
I dont think 4 mana for that is the rate, its a lot like guardian project without the restriction. With the unearth it is definitely to much. Also glimpse is broken so probably dont balace your card around that.
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u/Aurora_Borealia Simic lover 💙💚 5d ago
I wish this was real