Excellent card. This is a 1/2 Enlightened Tutor that you want to die. Let's see: Worship and then Opalescence, etc.. It's very easy to abuse this card!!!
MasterOfEtherium
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(20 votes)
Whoa!
Weretarrasque
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
EXCELLENT. White is one of the best colors for enchant decks, and this proves it. Really could be used in any white deck well.
It's a pretty hard find, though.
inmypants22
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(11 votes)
Whoa!
Dischade
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
A friend of mine uses this in his Enchanted Evening deck, it basically stops any attacking for a few turns.
You're pyroclasming all my creatures? Which means I have to sacrifice my Energy Field? Okay, then I'll search my library and put into play, let's see, um... an ENERGY FIELD! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Tanaka348
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Almost broken. Only thing that can really deal with it is exile, and if you've put it in the deck you probably have some sort of ridiculous enchantment you can get for free.
Fabercastel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Flash, Quicksand, Harm's Way... lots of cards that allow you to get this guy into your graveyard asap to pull out a ridiculous enchantment while your opponent least expects it.
The possibilities with this fella are almost endless.
The rulings for this card confuse me. It can search for Auras, but there is no rule on what happens if they come into play without a legal target. I mean, sure, they just go to the graveyard immediately, but I'd think they would still point this out in the rulings just to make sure everyone gets it.
Or, kill/sacrifice the Rector before you declare an attack, and let one of your critters go Eldrazi.
PeanutTheDestroyer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cephalid constable + this card + eldrazi con***ion=irritated opponents
SquirePath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Could you use this to tutor, say, Erayo, Soratami Ascendant as an Enchantment?
I don't think you can, as it's a creature all the time, except when you reach the fourth spell in a turn. But, I don't know, there a definitely stranger rules...
adrian.malacoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@SquirePath
Correct. Erayo is always a creature unless she is flipped over. In your library, the Erayo card is a creature card, not an enchantment card.
NoIHavent
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@ DarthParallax
Ok, I like it. However, you got a bit too enthusiastic with swords and whatnot. How about
1x Puresteel Paladin ?x giant pile of Mirrodin "Sword of"- at least 10, maybe full 20 4x Academy Rector 1x Omniscience 1x Necropotence ?x giant pile of Eldrazi, Praetors, Legendary Dragons, Legendary Angels, Progenitus, or Mythic Phyrexian Artifact Beasts, or whatever stupid crap you have lying around.
*x minimum amount of lands/artifact mana sources necessary to cast Academy Rector, Entomb/Reanimate (for Gris) plus some way to kill Rector as fast as possible. (a 200-400 card deck is completely reasonable depending how many Legendary Creatures you feel like tossing in)
Step 1: You Reanimate Griselbrand Step 2: You cheat Omniscience into play Step 3: You drop an assload of creatures onto the battlefield, including 1 Puresteel Paladin and a massive cache of equipment. Step 4: You destroy everyone because somewhere in that pile of awesome, something is going to be giving everything haste...and probably a lot more! xD
With, like, Sol Rings and junk, you might be able to do it turn 2 or 3.
EDIT: Actually NoIHaven't, thanks to Enter the Infinite, I like my 400-card Massive Stupid Deck.Deck Idea Better ^_^
In VINTAGE, no less, we have: Tutors and Jank and Cripe.
So. What we want to make, is, let's say my first numbers were too big...how about a 150-card deck?
We start with the Obvious Offenders, Restricted stuff like Necropotence and Power & Co.
With enough Tutors, and the best Mana Ramp in the Game, we go and get Enter The Infinite, and we Academy Rector for Omniscience. We SHIT our one-hundred-and-fifty-card deck onto the table, by no less than Turn 4. We accept that Vintage is usually a faster kill. We accept that not winning most of our games is worth being able to win the games we do win by the most massive possible overkill imaginable. (Remember- Mirror Gallery is a thing. 4 Emrakul's should be ONLY THE BEGINNING. You ought to get away with 4 Oracle of Mul Daya so you can play those 4 Dark Depths and get those 4 Marit Lage tokens too with your 4 Vampire Hexmages.
Enter the Omnipotence.Dec
I'm sorry, but if I wanted a 'Streamlined for Competitive Storm' deck NoIHaven't, I wouldn't be autocarding to Omniscience or Enter the Infinite because you don't strictly need them. :P
Shadowstar108
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A friend of mine has a bunch of older cards that his coworker gave to him, and he's been slowly picking through them. Every time we go through the cards, we always find something amazing. The other day, we found a copy of this. Long story short, he now has a way to get Finest Hour and Omniscience into play without a crapton of lands or using Chromatic Lantern in his B/W Exalted Deck.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Eldrazi Con***ion: with his dying breath the Rector makes his allies go all One Winged Angel.
Why the buck is s.c.r.i.p.t censored?
Lifegainwithbite
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Horrifically overpowered...
PlanetEarth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Academy Rector + Diabolic Intent = Omniscience + Enter the Infinite
It's Tinker for enchantments, except that you need a way to kill it instead of having to sacrifice something else. So awesome.
trizoney
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this is a combo card. one of the best enchantments to get is omniscience.and a have a lot of card draw and tutors in your deck to get what you need. a great card to tutor for after you got omniscience on the field is decree of pain.great creatures to put in this kind of deck are legend eldrazi and massive powerhouse creatures that you can cast for free also spells like time warp are great too. yeah their is a lot you can do with academy rector. he is insane and i think he is going to go up in value very high in the next few years.
mtg-fanatic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Thanks to the Theros block, now this card can tutor the GODS!! MWAH HA HA HA!!!
Very good card. Also; it can be nice to grab a Spirit of the Labyrinth or similar off of her as well. These enchantment creatures are awesome targets; also any of the Gods
MisterBader
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Once upon a time, it was perfectly legal to pull off the Rector -> Yawgmoth's Bargain combo...
You are now a god, free to Donate and Brand as you see fit. And there are so manywaystogiveotherpeople'sstuffawaytoo (give them the enchantment not the target, just Disenchant when you want to take something else). If anyone tries to pull anything you don't want them to, you can Trickbind or Cancel it.
At this point, you can crush everyone anytime you want with infinite Sudden Shocks, or you could make things interesting and shift cards around until there's one opponent left and then flip a coin to decide if you'll concede (or maybe just toss a Sway of the Stars and duke it out).
Comments (31)
It's a pretty hard find, though.
The possibilities with this fella are almost endless.
The rulings for this card confuse me. It can search for Auras, but there is no rule on what happens if they come into play without a legal target. I mean, sure, they just go to the graveyard immediately, but I'd think they would still point this out in the rulings just to make sure everyone gets it.
Or, kill/sacrifice the Rector before you declare an attack, and let one of your critters go Eldrazi.
I don't think you can, as it's a creature all the time, except when you reach the fourth spell in a turn.
But, I don't know, there a definitely stranger rules...
Correct. Erayo is always a creature unless she is flipped over. In your library, the Erayo card is a creature card, not an enchantment card.
Ok, I like it. However, you got a bit too enthusiastic with swords and whatnot. How about
4x Academy Rector
1x Omniscience
1x Griselbrand
4x Diabolic Intent
4x Gitaxian Probe
4x Brainstorm
4x Force of Will (or Pact of Negation)
Aaaaand something legacy legal with storm. Sound good?
GRISELBRAND!
FREAKING GAME
1x Puresteel Paladin
?x giant pile of Mirrodin "Sword of"- at least 10, maybe full 20
4x Academy Rector
1x Omniscience
1x Necropotence
?x giant pile of Eldrazi, Praetors, Legendary Dragons, Legendary Angels, Progenitus, or
Mythic Phyrexian Artifact Beasts, or whatever stupid crap you have lying around.
*x minimum amount of lands/artifact mana sources necessary to cast Academy Rector, Entomb/Reanimate (for Gris) plus some way to kill Rector as fast as possible. (a 200-400 card deck is completely reasonable depending how many Legendary Creatures you feel like tossing in)
Step 1: You Reanimate Griselbrand
Step 2: You cheat Omniscience into play
Step 3: You drop an assload of creatures onto the battlefield, including 1 Puresteel Paladin and
a massive cache of equipment.
Step 4: You destroy everyone because somewhere in that pile of awesome, something is going to be giving everything haste...and probably a lot more! xD
With, like, Sol Rings and junk, you might be able to do it turn 2 or 3.
EDIT: Actually NoIHaven't, thanks to Enter the Infinite, I like my 400-card Massive Stupid Deck.Deck Idea Better ^_^
In VINTAGE, no less, we have: Tutors and Jank and Cripe.
So. What we want to make, is, let's say my first numbers were too big...how about a 150-card deck?
We start with the Obvious Offenders, Restricted stuff like Necropotence and Power & Co.
With enough Tutors, and the best Mana Ramp in the Game, we go and get Enter The Infinite, and we Academy Rector for Omniscience. We SHIT our one-hundred-and-fifty-card deck onto the table, by no less than Turn 4. We accept that Vintage is usually a faster kill. We accept that not winning most of our games is worth being able to win the games we do win by the most massive possible overkill imaginable. (Remember- Mirror Gallery is a thing. 4 Emrakul's should be ONLY THE BEGINNING. You ought to get away with 4 Oracle of Mul Daya so you can play those 4 Dark Depths and get those 4 Marit Lage tokens too with your 4 Vampire Hexmages.
Enter the Omnipotence.Dec
I'm sorry, but if I wanted a 'Streamlined for Competitive Storm' deck NoIHaven't, I wouldn't be autocarding to Omniscience or Enter the Infinite because you don't strictly need them. :P
Why the buck is s.c.r.i.p.t censored?
:-)
Very good card. Also; it can be nice to grab a Spirit of the Labyrinth or similar off of her as well. These enchantment creatures are awesome targets; also any of the Gods
...in DRAFT.
You are now a god, free to Donate and Brand as you see fit. And there are so many ways to give other people's stuff away too (give them the enchantment not the target, just Disenchant when you want to take something else). If anyone tries to pull anything you don't want them to, you can Trickbind or Cancel it.
At this point, you can crush everyone anytime you want with infinite Sudden Shocks, or you could make things interesting and shift cards around until there's one opponent left and then flip a coin to decide if you'll concede (or maybe just toss a Sway of the Stars and duke it out).