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Divination

Multiverse ID: 190172

Divination

Comments (22)

Oleander
★★☆☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (10 votes)
This "new" card is simply Counsel of the Soratami renamed.
ZEvilMustache
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0) (6 votes)
In honor of the original, the skull around his neck should have been a rabbit skull. Maybe it is?
Flingthemonkeys
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (37 votes)
isn't using magic to find your car keys a little lazy?
True_Mumin
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (10 votes)
Not this garbage again...
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (4 votes)
I don't know why they all of a sudden decided to made tons of duplicates of already existant cards rather then reprinting them as they used to do in past core sets. Maybe they wanted to "generalize" the names, although i liked those extracted fromout past set as well, since these names contained some sort of Magic's history. On the other hand i like those new ones as well :D
SavageBrain89
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0) (6 votes)
The reason wizards reprinted cards with new names was to make them more intuitive and flavorful for new players. Considering that blue got crippled in M10 it probably would have been better if wizards had just made a new original drawing card, one thats an instant or grants a greater number of card draws.
Volcre
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (6 votes)
I just don't understand why they would print this when Mulldrifter is still in standard... and truth is that Mulldrifter is strictly better.
Iiory
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0) (5 votes)
this dude actualy find his keys...wow ,i can`t understand why ansestral vision isn`t in the forum
ong312
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (5 votes)
It's playable only because there is an utter lack of decent card draw right now in the standard/type 2 flormat.

I would much rather they had reprinted Opportunity or Treasure Trove than this. Yes, they both cost more, but they both work much better!

Eved
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (4 votes)
So why am I paying one mana to draw one card and do various other things, but I'm paying 3 just to draw 2 cards?
True_Smog
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (7 votes)
This card is an insult to Blue draw spells.
Tobolococo
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (6 votes)
i would say sign in blood is better, the 2 life are worth one less mana, and you can use it on your opponent if he is really low on life, for blue, well you guys have alternatives, ponder is a start.

nice art
infernox10
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Well, since the flavor text seems semi-similar,
Maybe instead of his car keys he's geting Voltaic Key.
DacenOctavio
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Bring back Mulldrifter.
scumbling1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
"I just don't understand why they would print this when Mulldrifter is still in standard... and truth is that Mulldrifter is strictly better."

This is a card meant to be played exclusively in M10 Limited. This was one card of several that Wizards pointed out as being very simple and flavorful in a revitalized attempt to market Core Sets to new players. Mulldrifter can't be played in M10 Limited.
ninjaman98
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Who puts keys in a birdbath to draw spells? was the artist high or something?
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (6 votes)
Okay, that does it. I'm going to become the "strictly better" police now.

Mulldrifter is not "strictly better". Mulldrifter is a creature card that can be evoked into play for the same mana cost as Divination, giving you the same effect.

Yes, it has the flexibility to also be a creature that sticks if you need it, and is undoubtedly the better card in like 99% of games.

However, here's some stuff that can happen to you if you opt for the Mulldrifter:

- Opponent steals Mulldrifter out of your graveyard with Rise From the Grave or something (it generally being easier to yoink creatures out of the graveyard)

- Opponent has something like Blade of the Bloodchief, Mortician Beetle, or another card that cares about creatures hitting your graveyard/being sacrificed.

- Opponent is running more spells of a creature-countering nature, such as Essence Scatter

Mulldrifter is the better card. It is not a strictly better card. Quit f*cking doing that.
rctoons
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Bringing back ancestral recall ART back to Em 10!
TheHandyman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dude, that'll teach you to drop your keys in a steaming cauldron of radioactive blue goo. And what's with the nail polish?

Still, like the artwork.
Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No escape, blinding spirits, no escape, trapped in time and space!
Fire in the eye!
Reminiscent majesty!
Burningsickle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Divination is giving you the key to my heart!