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This is such a control card. I have 3 of these in my blue deck and it ***es everyone off royally.

Nevermind... Misread it.

when you make a creature with +1/+1 counters on it, does it become a 0/2 or is the cretures original power/toughness the only thing effected then you ad the counters on after?

Awesome. I played the mono-blue Planar Chaos theme deck in a sealed deck tournament, the deck really needed more than one copy of him.

So it should read target creature becomes strictly worse than storm crow until end of turn.

olojmi: It'll make his original P/T 0/2. If the creature was originally a 4/4 with three +1/+1 counters, that would make him a 7/7. But if you turned him into a 0/2, the counters would still take effect, making him a 3/5.

Yep, it'll only screw with temporary bonus like end of turn stuff, but not static or counter's.

ahhh your going into my edh great for saying your creature is usless

This guy+Merfolk Thaumaturgist=Death....well....been working for ME anyway...

Time-shifted Sorceress Queen for blue; nice. Great artwork and a powerful effect.

4/5

I love this card, and it reminds me of ovinomancer, almost as if this guy is the apprentice, unable to do it permanently. Consequently, whenever he transforms someone into a sheep (or whatever, but i like to think of it as a sheep) I have to let out a loud 'BAAAAAA!'. With an ability as fun/weird as this, someone has to. The great part is the people in my playgroup have started to as well. Awesome.

About the card itself, I have also found good utility with Merfolk Thaumaturgist, as well as blinking a Spawnbroker in and out of play, exchanging itself for the 0/2, then blinking it so it comes back under my control to repeat the action. If in a tight spot you can always use it to nullify an attacker or make a combat exchange more profitable, although as you are playing blue control that is less likely. No matter what, this is an amazing card that is excellent in multiples, and any blue creature-based control deck should run multiple copies..

I love the effect and the art. "MWAHAHAHA TASTE MY BLUE LIGHTNING BOLTS!"
:D

This artwork was originally commissioned for a Planeshifted blue Preacher, but playtesting found the card to be too powerful/unfun. (source: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/af155)

Odd ability revision from the old Sorceress Queen days. Would letting a Serendib Sorcerer target itself really break the thing?

Flavor wise it's pretty cool, though. He's too stuffy and condescending to use his humbling ability on himself.

Ridiculously fun in EDH. I love using it to mess with combat math after blockers have been declared, even if it's between two opponents. They always seem to forget he's there.

Fun times should be ahead in concert with Skymark Roc. The Roc needs the creature to have 2 toughness or less to send it skittering away. The Sorcerer arranges for that to happen...

Decent pseudo-removal card on its own (pumps aside, it more or less removes a creature as a suitable attacker/blocker, and can switch as your opponent plays more creatures), but works best in conjunction with other cards. Like people have mentioned, combos well with Thaumaturgist, but that card itself isn't very good without help, whereas Serendib can stand up on its own.

It does adore Beguiler of Wills from Dark Ascension though. Easy, permanent mind control.

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This is the timeshifted version of Sorceress Queen.