"krazy kool kard"? kkk? invoke PREJUDICE? yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
Megrimage
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
the new oracle next to the picture makes this card seem totally different at first glance. it sounded like they had to be playing an artifact creature spell or it is countered. also, this card doesn't omit artifact creatures from the card's effects.
Eschonic
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Very good for a counter deck, since it doubles the cost to cast a creature spell
True_Smog
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Incredibly annoying card, I love it!
Guest57443454
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This + In the Eye of Chaos=Hilarity...This card has a very blunt and slightly offensive flavor, especially with that artwork...
Auteur
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
The one card guaranteed to never be reprinted, ever? It's a good effect, if somewhat overcosted.
HairlessThoctar
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(22 votes)
Really subtle, Wizards.
Laguz
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(14 votes)
They should have used the black panther party instead. The kkk is so last century.
GradiustheFox
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
I have expect a very nervous Ruling to be added at some point XP "Doesn't work on Artifacts. And... Uhhh... The player of this card... Instantly loses. Because prejudice is BAD."
TheSuperbloop
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I get more of a Spanish Inquisition vibe from this card than anything else. What KKK member carries an axe like that?
Anyways, beast of a card.
Teotanek
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(8 votes)
KKK is so american culture, when I saw the drawing I never thought they could actully be some sort of kkk memebers (I am argentine) in fact I think of this card as sister of nether void, and the drawing as some sort of impotent death, like necroimpotence.
GrimjawxRULES
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Wait... Will this try to counter my opponents' creatures if I'm only controlling colorless creatures? And what happens in the event that I don't control any creatures? does it still try to counter my opponents' creatures?
hid@n
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is so good. If you play a play Mycosynth Lattice, it counters all your opponent's creatures. (if it is colorless, it doesn't share colors with anything, even other colorless cards)
iamjohn
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(9 votes)
Only card that is more overpowered then chimney imp
spike_barnett
★★★☆☆ (4.0/5.0)(12 votes)
"Whenever an opponent casts a nonwhite creature spell, counter that spell unless its controller picks up their cards and goes to the colored table." "We don't take kindly to your kind 'round here..."
Seriously though... How did this card ever make it to print? WTF were they thinking?
ElvishSpirit
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
This card might of been going places if it weren't for how racist it is....lol
Because that is not at all a bad effect, great for sideboard if you are playing a classic U control deck (or splash U for this)
at least it didn't say non-white creature has to pay double...knowing how nuts the card effect were during these days, they very well could of.
allmighty_abacus
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
run in an artifact or eldrazi deck.
izzet_guild_mage
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This is soooooo going in my (Ninth Edition) Paladin en-Vec deck.
TDL
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Whut's that? Yer tryin' ta summon a Juzám Djinn? Well, we don take kindly ta folks of yer' culor 'round here, nosiree... Where d'ya think yer goin', boy?
EnV
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(14 votes)
People always crack the "we dun take kindly to your color around here" when a black spell is countered.
Trizeam
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Wow... I can't believe that got through.
tavaritz
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(11 votes)
I'm sorry, but if this card is racist then all Protection from Black cards are also. Get life.
This is overcosted multicolor hoser, nothing more.
Tanaka348
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@tavaritz: I don't see how this hoses multicolor any more then... oh, I think you misread it. This doubles the cost of opponents' creatures that don't match one of your creatures' colors. So, non-blue creatures (unless you're crazy enough to splash a {U}{U}{U}{U} card). Or, more importantly, all creatures if you're going creatureless.
Good luck using this {U}{U}{U}{U} card with a {R}{B} card, Verdant Handshake!
My favourite part of the card is actually the art. The art looks really really good, and I wouldn't mind having it up on a wall. People get so stuck up on the fact that the art has what looks vaguely like KKK members that they don't stop to appreciate the art itself.
TheWrathofShane
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(6 votes)
@Henritta
The card is called INVOKE PREJUDICE. The Artwork is robed men with the SIGNATURE KKK pointy hat. The effect is creature HATE.
Theres no way NOT to notice how it refrences the KKK.
Still, I dont think they were trying to be rasist. I think someone pitched the name invoke prejudice as an idea for creature hate, and the artist couldnt resist a KKK refrence. He did NOT go full on rasist, because Klan members do not walk around with axes.
And, if they really were being rasist. It would be a white enchantment that counters all nonwhite creatures and art would be actual KKK members hanging a ***.
Also, yeah, definitely nuanced in terms of flavor. Yes, we're clearly dealing with the Blu Klux Klan here.
ray_juped
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(21 votes)
So this is that race card everyone's always playing
WarioMan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If I control no creatures, does this work?
omni8000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
you guys are seriously hilarious
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Does this trigger as true when you have no creatures out, or do you need to have a creature out?
theAzaZeL
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@ Kryptnyt: According to one LVL 2 Judge few years back, it should trigger ... since if I don't control a creature, their creatures can't possibly share a color with any.
Geez folks, there sure are a lot of off-colour jokes being thrown around here....
gr1pp
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(9 votes)
By pure coincidence (or is it?), if you check the URL of this card, it does have the multiverseid of 1488.
Werewolf-
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(5 votes)
@gr1pp
I cannot unsee what has been seen.
For those who don't get the reference, "1488" is an important, symbolic number in the white supremacy movement.
endersblade
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I have an Angus Mackenzie EDH deck, enchantment-based. Lots of 'wall' cards - Ghostly Prison, Moat, etc. The deck itself is creatureless, minus the general and the few tokens I can produce. I love fetching this and getting it on the board ASAP - If I have no creatures, my opponents have to pay double for their creatures, or they get countered :-) So in love with this card.
reapersaurus
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(22 votes)
Just an FYI, about the artist, Harold McNeill: I met him in '95 at WotC's Artist's Caravan along with other Magic artists. I expressed to him my enjoyment of his (I thought absurd) art for Invoke Prejudice. He lit up, and said I might be interested in some of his other art, then. He pulled out a couple artbooks filled with racist and Nazi-inspired art. Creeped out beyond belief, I sheepishly thanked him and got the hell away from that table as quick as I could. There's a reason why he has done almost zero professional work for a long time. His MySpace confirms he's a complete racist nutjob. I'd say "not that there's anything wrong with that", but this is the 21st century, and YEAH - THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT.
occamsrazorwit
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(5 votes)
The Multiverse ID is 1488, the number associated with white supremacy... Wut
The_Murderauder
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Mr. Mcneill also illustrated the Tempest version of CoP:Black, and believe it or not, it was actually beautiful and nonthreatening.
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card works wonders in a (colorless) artifact deck.
Also note that because of the rules change that eliminated "summon" from creature cards, this card will now always force your opponent to pay double for colorless artifacts. (Originally, they weren't summon cards, but the modern rules don't care about that and this card was never errated to keep its old functionality.) It will also always double the cost of colorless creatures like Eldrazi -- good luck paying that.
Legendxp
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Interestingly enough this is the only magic card in existence that costs . So go to town devotion decks I guess?
mattrva77
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Oh wow, the multiverse ID #...
Look it up if you don't get it. This is insane.
Tiggurix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Funny how its ID number is 1488, seeing as this is an intensely BLUE card.
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The Blu Klux Klan.
blurrymadness
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Easily one of my favorite artists; it just has that raw sweeping motion effect to it in all his pieces; while being obscure and interesting.
To the 1488 thing, it's obviously just a coincidence given the set. To be fair, any of these numbers would also support the nazi-relation if you wanted them to: 420 (Hitler's birthday), 1889 (Hitler's birthyear), 555 (Hitler's party number), 82 or 802 (Hitler's rise to dictator), 228 (First major bill suppressing rights of peoples in Germany passed), 1919 (Treaty of Versailles, which is what led to everything, also, German Worker's Party), 1932 (Nazi party now largest in Germany), 1934 (Year Hitler rose to dictator)
With only a few minutes of work I've found you 9 other numbers that mark huge events directly related to the Nazi party. You could not only find numbers like this, but it could be related to Jim Crow laws, US Civil War, emancipation proclamation, civil war battles, death of MLK, death of JFK, Rosa Parks being arrested, you name it. Think of the literally hundreds upon thousands of events that mark everything from Nazi Germany, to Nazis in america, to racism in america, to landmarks in legislation reducing racism. The first discovery of Concentration camps, the last one closing, the first train to them, etc..
Try not to read so much into numerology :|; you can connect anything to anything else with it and it relies on the Gish Gallop
MortisAngelus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@blurrymadness:
You are probably correct about this, but there is one thing weird in this whole scheme, that your fine argument doesn't cover:
The other cards and numbers you refer to have a strange ID-number, and granted (as you say), one can simply not judge the meaning of numbers - they are just numbers - and thus can be connected with anything and anyone at any given moment with the right set of mind.
However, don't you find it a little bit weird that the ONE card with REALLY racist image also did get a really RACIST number (when written in the wrong situation that is). I don't blame WoTC for being racist, rather blame them for making an insensitive joke, that I also would have thought funny a late Saturday evening talking stupid, childish and idiotic stuff over a bottle of beer. But to actually produce this for real is something I would never have done.
But let's hope you are right, that this was all just a coincidence and that it will never be repeated ever again.
Re-print with new art, anyone? This card is awesome in manner of effect.
SkyknightXi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Even WITHOUT the squirm-inducing qualities McNeill's art here places, there's no way it's getting reprinted, not when it's stuck on the Reserved List.
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Out of all the artists that have done Magic art, Harold Mc. Neill is my favorite. I really like all of his card artworks... except for this one. I'm glad that they don't have card arts like this anymore.
Comments (52)
"Doesn't work on Artifacts. And... Uhhh... The player of this card... Instantly loses. Because prejudice is BAD."
Anyways, beast of a card.
"We don't take kindly to your kind 'round here..."
Seriously though... How did this card ever make it to print? WTF were they thinking?
Because that is not at all a bad effect, great for sideboard if you are playing a classic U control deck (or splash U for this)
at least it didn't say non-white creature has to pay double...knowing how nuts the card effect were during these days, they very well could of.
This is overcosted multicolor hoser, nothing more.
My favourite part of the card is actually the art. The art looks really really good, and I wouldn't mind having it up on a wall. People get so stuck up on the fact that the art has what looks vaguely like KKK members that they don't stop to appreciate the art itself.
The card is called INVOKE PREJUDICE. The Artwork is robed men with the SIGNATURE KKK pointy hat. The effect is creature HATE.
Theres no way NOT to notice how it refrences the KKK.
Still, I dont think they were trying to be rasist. I think someone pitched the name invoke prejudice as an idea for creature hate, and the artist couldnt resist a KKK refrence. He did NOT go full on rasist, because Klan members do not walk around with axes.
And, if they really were being rasist. It would be a white enchantment that counters all nonwhite creatures and art would be actual KKK members hanging a ***.
Magic is not rasist, the KKK are.
Also, yeah, definitely nuanced in terms of flavor. Yes, we're clearly dealing with the Blu Klux Klan here.
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=183484
I cannot unsee what has been seen.
For those who don't get the reference, "1488" is an important, symbolic number in the white supremacy movement.
I met him in '95 at WotC's Artist's Caravan along with other Magic artists.
I expressed to him my enjoyment of his (I thought absurd) art for Invoke Prejudice. He lit up, and said I might be interested in some of his other art, then. He pulled out a couple artbooks filled with racist and Nazi-inspired art. Creeped out beyond belief, I sheepishly thanked him and got the hell away from that table as quick as I could.
There's a reason why he has done almost zero professional work for a long time.
His MySpace confirms he's a complete racist nutjob. I'd say "not that there's anything wrong with that", but this is the 21st century, and YEAH - THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT.
Also note that because of the rules change that eliminated "summon" from creature cards, this card will now always force your opponent to pay double for colorless artifacts. (Originally, they weren't summon cards, but the modern rules don't care about that and this card was never errated to keep its old functionality.) It will also always double the cost of colorless creatures like Eldrazi -- good luck paying that.
Look it up if you don't get it. This is insane.
To the 1488 thing, it's obviously just a coincidence given the set. To be fair, any of these numbers would also support the nazi-relation if you wanted them to:
420 (Hitler's birthday), 1889 (Hitler's birthyear), 555 (Hitler's party number), 82 or 802 (Hitler's rise to dictator), 228 (First major bill suppressing rights of peoples in Germany passed), 1919 (Treaty of Versailles, which is what led to everything, also, German Worker's Party), 1932 (Nazi party now largest in Germany), 1934 (Year Hitler rose to dictator)
With only a few minutes of work I've found you 9 other numbers that mark huge events directly related to the Nazi party. You could not only find numbers like this, but it could be related to Jim Crow laws, US Civil War, emancipation proclamation, civil war battles, death of MLK, death of JFK, Rosa Parks being arrested, you name it. Think of the literally hundreds upon thousands of events that mark everything from Nazi Germany, to Nazis in america, to racism in america, to landmarks in legislation reducing racism. The first discovery of Concentration camps, the last one closing, the first train to them, etc..
Try not to read so much into numerology :|; you can connect anything to anything else with it and it relies on the Gish Gallop
You are probably correct about this, but there is one thing weird in this whole scheme, that your fine argument doesn't cover:
The other cards and numbers you refer to have a strange ID-number, and granted (as you say), one can simply not judge the meaning of numbers - they are just numbers - and thus can be connected with anything and anyone at any given moment with the right set of mind.
However, don't you find it a little bit weird that the ONE card with REALLY racist image also did get a really RACIST number (when written in the wrong situation that is). I don't blame WoTC for being racist, rather blame them for making an insensitive joke, that I also would have thought funny a late Saturday evening talking stupid, childish and idiotic stuff over a bottle of beer. But to actually produce this for real is something I would never have done.
But let's hope you are right, that this was all just a coincidence and that it will never be repeated ever again.
Re-print with new art, anyone? This card is awesome in manner of effect.