Solid balanced card that can be useful but not abused. Playing from top of your deck allows you to "draw" new cards faster, but allows your opponent to know what counterspells you have against him.
Gotta love a card that basically turns your deck into your hand. 5/5, no joke.
Pwnsaw
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
I don't mind my opponent knowing I have a counterspell, but I do mind them knowing I do not have a counterspell. Even so, this card generates a lot of card advantage, and is just fun to play.
Your opponents wont want to cast anything when they see a counterspell waiting on top of your deck.
You guys better be grateful this card isn't red >_> Sure, they get to see your counterspells, but you get to play cards off the top of your library all the time until you don't have more mana. Imagina all the creature advantage and all the affinity and storm spells you'll get to play! - If only it had been red, then you'd never run out of burn spells!
skew
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Good card, but easy to get rid off. Considering the color-weight, he could be 2/4.
4/5*
Your opponent thinks your out of counters? pay 1 to top the counter thats 3 cards down in your library. Hit a second land that you can't play? or a card you can't cast yet? tap the top to draw it, then play the top for 1, carry on... Who cares if your opponent can see what your drawing when you can basically pay 1 to draw a card during your main.
Gezus82
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
this guy is crazy, the card advantage is absolutely insane. The thing I can compare him to the most is primordial sage/glimpse of nature
It's like "whenever you put a card into play draw a card (this includes lands.)
If you have the mana and ways to play multiple lands a turn you could burn through you'r deck very very quickly.
it's also very strong against discard because you'r deck becomes your hand and you'r hand is normally filled with lands that you've brainstormed out of the way with a couple multiples in your hand you're holding onto because they would be redundant in play.
the only problems I've found with him is he you commit a lot to the board and mass removal hurts a lot. also, it's very easy to go so low in you'r library that you can mill yourself before the end is in sight. (i've gotten myself down to 10 cards by turn 9 with green execration)
Definately playing both cards in my EDH deck. 4.5/5
sonorhC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't get the rulings... The first ruling and the eighth one say the same thing, but they disagree with the fifth ruling. If I have this out, and I cast a spell that says to draw three cards, do I reveal one at a time, like the first ruling says, or do I not reveal anything until the spell finishes resolving, like the fifth ruling says?
NatalyNeeSama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Magus from Chrono Trigger? D=
Khultar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
does no one realize this is exactly the card "future sight" but in the form of a creature???
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
so basically this lets you get one turn ahead? couldn't you just accomplish the same thing by drawing a couple cards?
try a mulldrifter. my guess is the mullie will work better.
This effect is crazy in EDH, especially stax. It incentivizes a low, low average CMC and rewards you immensely for it. Run lots of fetch lands, Ponder/Brainstorm effects, mana artifacts, and I'm talking to the tune of 3 or 4 extra cards per turn after turn 6. Oh, too bad we all lost our hands to my Mindslicer. That I just played off the top of my library. I think I'll proceed to play 3 or so cards per turn while you guys are stuck trying to draw yourselves out of it.
Don't even get me started with Future + Top. "1: Draw a card" Sound good?
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would have liked to see Magus of the Planar Chaos lols.
twiddleman12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
On first glance, I thought that this said "Magus Of The Failure"
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It gives you an extra zone to play spells from for the sake of Knowledge Pool. Also this version of the effect is searchable at instant speed via Vedalken Æthermage.
Superllama12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Magus of the HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY WRIST?!?!?!?
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Superllama: actually he's just holding a staff.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I think this could have been an opportunity for Wizards to mess around with our heads even more, and have it be a 'call back from Future Past' to a card they hadn't yet made. Deliberately getting people to ask 'why isn't the same as the Future card you made before?'
Answer: because *Edit: No. You're brain will hurt to much if we tell you the truth on this one.*, see?
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New Comment!
See Garruk's Packleader. This card is pseudo-obsolete because creatures are what Garruk's deck want to cast, so the 'limitation' is a feature more than a bug; a feature that pays for a 7/7 Trampling Monster.
I think this could cost 1 less, get a 'Blue-flavored' restriction to Instants and Sorceries, and be a 3/3, and that would be a cool card. :)
Any card that gives blanket-access to all card types, like Regrowth, I believe can be improved by limiting it to cards the color actually wants to use.
THAT'S what "Black will do anything to win" Used to mean/Should mean. I think we've seen plenty of combo decks ruin things up when either
-the Artifacts are too good and do all your work for you. -Blue is too good and gets all the card types from the rest of the Pie, without paying life like Black has to.
Why making Blue pay life is a bad idea for 'balance': Force of Will.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Nearly every card in Time Spiral block was a throwback to at least one previously printed card.
This card references Future Sight and is part of the "Magus" super cycle of rare creatures. The Future Sight part of the cycle focuses on powerful enchantments, even matching the mana cost; the others are Magus of the Moat, Magus of the Abyss, Magus of the Moon, and Magus of the Vineyard.
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Your opponents wont want to cast anything when they see a counterspell waiting on top of your deck.
Sure, they get to see your counterspells, but you get to play cards off the top of your library all the time until you don't have more mana. Imagina all the creature advantage and all the affinity and storm spells you'll get to play!
- If only it had been red, then you'd never run out of burn spells!
4/5*
Your opponent thinks your out of counters? pay 1 to top the counter thats 3 cards down in your library.
Hit a second land that you can't play? or a card you can't cast yet? tap the top to draw it, then play the top for 1, carry on...
Who cares if your opponent can see what your drawing when you can basically pay 1 to draw a card during your main.
It's like "whenever you put a card into play draw a card (this includes lands.)
If you have the mana and ways to play multiple lands a turn you could burn through you'r deck very very quickly.
it's also very strong against discard because you'r deck becomes your hand and you'r hand is normally filled with lands that you've brainstormed out of the way with a couple multiples in your hand you're holding onto because they would be redundant in play.
the only problems I've found with him is he you commit a lot to the board and mass removal hurts a lot.
also, it's very easy to go so low in you'r library that you can mill yourself before the end is in sight. (i've gotten myself down to 10 cards by turn 9 with green execration)
Information dealer to stack your deck and play the top card with this Magus. Merrow reejery + Artificial Evolution naming wizards so you can untap your islands to play more wizards. Stonybrook Banneret helps too. Patron Wizard lockdown, Supreme Inquisitor for the win
Definately playing both cards in my EDH deck. 4.5/5
try a mulldrifter. my guess is the mullie will work better.
Don't even get me started with Future + Top. "1: Draw a card" Sound good?
Answer: because *Edit: No. You're brain will hurt to much if we tell you the truth on this one.*, see?
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Old Comment Irrelevant, but I'm keeping it because I still think it's a cool idea. :p
New Comment!
See Garruk's Packleader. This card is pseudo-obsolete because creatures are what Garruk's deck want to cast, so the 'limitation' is a feature more than a bug; a feature that pays for a 7/7 Trampling Monster.
I think this could cost 1 less, get a 'Blue-flavored' restriction to Instants and Sorceries, and be a 3/3, and that would be a cool card. :)
Any card that gives blanket-access to all card types, like Regrowth, I believe can be improved by limiting it to cards the color actually wants to use.
Green: Creatures
White: Artifacts and Enchantments
Blue: Instants
Red: Sorceries
Black: Anything
THAT'S what "Black will do anything to win" Used to mean/Should mean. I think we've seen plenty of combo decks ruin things up when either
-the Artifacts are too good and do all your work for you.
-Blue is too good and gets all the card types from the rest of the Pie,
without paying life like Black has to.
Why making Blue pay life is a bad idea for 'balance': Force of Will.
This card references Future Sight and is part of the "Magus" super cycle of rare creatures. The Future Sight part of the cycle focuses on powerful enchantments, even matching the mana cost; the others are Magus of the Moat, Magus of the Abyss, Magus of the Moon, and Magus of the Vineyard.
The Time Spiral part of the cycle focuses on powerful artifacts: Magus of the Candelabra, Magus of the Disk, Magus of the Mirror, Magus of the Jar, and Magus of the Scroll. The Planar Chaos cycle focuses on powerful lands: Magus of the Bazaar, Magus of the Coffers, Magus of the Tabernacle, Magus of the Arena, and Magus of the Library.
So basically, inception?
So here's a sight of a Future guy who's Future Sight in Future Sight.