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cool card, but what exactly is the green part of it? feels like a totally blue/white card to me...

It should cost (W)(U).

I'm not sure how I feel about this card. It's removal, so it's worth looking at in limited.

However, it doesn't deal with creatures that have annoying activated abilities, which is, in my opinion, the best use of removal.

Just another version of Pacifism.... every block the same procedure. B.O.R.I.N.G.!!!

Not quite teh same as pacifism, and an interesing side effect. Hilarious with avian mimeomancer. Useful for drafting etc becuase these colors usually hurt for removal, but I agree that nothing abour this card feels green. Unless it's going for a basilisk-esque feel?

this card is good and all but there is something unclear to me, lets say someone puts this on your creature (obviously) and than you throw a disenchant on it, now the question is does the creature die as well? because really you didnt target the creature but you did target the enchantment that is on the creature so what is the end result of this? does the crystallization die, or both?

Can I devour one of my creature cards that was crystallized and still get a +1/+1 for that creature?

this is better than pacifism because u can remove the creature from the game,and this is good if it has some nasty abillitys,take orzhov for example

Imagine if instead of the "remove if targeted" effect, it said EXALTED.

@mrpaul1112:
Yes, you can devour a creature you control enchanted with Crystallization without the creature being exiled because Devour doesn't target.

This card is actually a far better pacifism, not just a reprint. Why? Because you can pacify the creature and then later kill it with any ability, even a beneficial one. Got a creature that taps to add a counter to another one? Use it on the crystallized creature and it gets exiled. Again thats exiled not simply sent to graveyard, its completely gone. A great way to do that would be find a creature who does something like, x target creatures are dealt damage when this card enters play, and then have a few creatures crystallized, for instant exile. Whether thats better than simply finding a card that exiles them is hard to say, keeping in mind that with kitsune mystic you could move the crystallization from creature to creature. Imo wotc has made removal far to easy to achieve, between lightning bolt, path to exile, and maelstrom pulse.. basically if your creature isn't shrouded and indestructible and black and have more than 3 toughness.. it's dead.

@questions, yes you can disenchant/naturalize only the enchantment because you are not targeting the creature, and you can still devour a creature because devour doesn't use the word "target." Mtg rules are very literal, it either says "target" on the ability or it isn't targeting, for example tapping is not a targeted ability, but prodigial pyromancer does have to target a creature to do 1 damage to it (that could be used to exile a creature with crystallization enchanted on it).

If the creature plays its own ability, like a tap abillity, does it die?

Yep, good card because you basically remove target creature for . (I as`sume everybody has something to trigger second part of Crystallization)

I have a Question. If u used this card on an enemy creature, and then u used aura finesse to move crystallization to another creature, does the first creature get removed from the game??? would b fun if it worked!

It's a better version of Ice Cage.

WHAT THE HELL

In most decks this is essentially Pacifism with a bonus. But in the right deck it can be abused relatively easily. With cards like Simic Guildmage, Vedalken Mastermind, Reality Acid (more removal), and Icy Manipulator (or it's kin) you can trigger Crystallization's ability by targeting the enchanted creature, then respond by returning/moving Crystallization to your hand/another creature. I bet that would be hard to deal with once it's rolling.

Anyways, fun card. More options is always better than fewer options.

This card would be nice in a W/G aura deck, in place of a Pacifism.

This card works awesome with word of undoing!!

Generally, it's a sorcery-speed Terminate that exiles. Very good.

Crystallization + Sun Titan + Target effect, thats easy enough right? I use Jhessian Balmgiver just for laughs

All in all, I would have prefered the exile effect have been replaced with "Can't activate activated abilities."
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And perhaps extended to all permanents. That'd be cruel, though.

Ha, even better than Pacifism because it provides a way to easily get rid of creatures with activated or passive abilities afterwards as well.

It's part green because green gets Pacifism-type effects sometimes too. See Entangling Vines, Arachnus Web, etc.

I think the green is just to make it more Bant Playable. I mean think about it. The card could be pure white. With a different name. White has both exile and pacifism. Could make it some trapping spell or something. I don't know I am not a card designer, but you get the point. Both the effects are white effects. Blue does share some of them, but if this card costed {w}{w} and had a different name. I really wouldn't be too surprised.

Yeah as is flavor wise it matches Blue and White, but we have to understand it was designed for Bant. Even if the Flavor isn't perfect, it has a reason to be the way it is.

@ElSinorBlanco
I always thought that the green part was destroying the creature. Green is about the community and protecting the group as a whole over the individual. If a creature is a threat to your community of creatures, or is being too selfish and allowing itself to be targeted by spells, it is punished by being exiled.

Crystallization on opponent's Sanctuary Cat, cast Curiosity on Sanctuary cat. Curiosity kills the cat.

It's even better now with Theros around, as it shuts down heroic trigger repetition.

A little confusing to imagine how it works when this happens to Misthollow Griffin.