I love how they just made me buy another gorram playset of a common because they couldn't just reprint Remove Soul.
Oleander
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(6 votes)
That makes the 3rd "new" card in this set that is a different named reprint.
Omaa
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(6 votes)
I like the new name. Remove Soul sounds more like something you'd expect on a black card that zombified creatures in play. Essence Scatter definitely sounds like it's interrupting a summoning and is more blue like. Love the flavor text too.
Flingthemonkeys
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(5 votes)
i'm not sure why hes turning into birds isn't that dovescapes bit
DoctorKenneth
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(17 votes)
Isn't trying to solve flavour miscommunications an unphill battle? Why bother when you will always be able to equip your Oozes with Swords, Shock a Ball Lightening, Immolate your Water Elemental, or have your Predator Dragon eat a Wall of Ice. The game metaphor can survive Remove Soul-ing someone's golem. Our disbelief has been suspended. Is it really worth making a "new" card to fix a problem that people have long ago accepted?
MasterOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Hell Yeah I Love This Card
Mprime818
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(5 votes)
People stop b**ching about a renamed reprint of a card... The art is nice, and wizards is tryna keep stuff fresh sheesh... Just spend the 40 cents to buy four of them and call it a day!!!
WilsonFree
★★★☆☆ (4.0/5.0)(10 votes)
I hate it when they do this. It's just stupid. At the very least we deserve an explanation.
Roxolan
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Sketches of this card were featured in a Magic Arcana article. http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/241
Sarkhan-Vol
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(4 votes)
The art just kicks, i would love to turn someone into birds. lol
Mr. Underpants
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(12 votes)
Why couldn't they have used the Portal card False Summoning? Name's good, especially if announced in a James Earl Jones voice as: FALSE......SUMMONING!
Saxophonist
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
I don't know if it's true or not, but I heard that the name change was made because someone at a tournament made a complaint that his Soulless One shouldn't be able to be countered by Remove Soul.
Iiory
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(5 votes)
wtf is this guy doing...playing with birds.....come on
Forgeling
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I wonder if they changed the name because Remove Soul is offensive to some people?
Vinifera7
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
I like the art, even if this card is just a functional reprint of Remove Soul.
CheloniaMania
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
on the bright side, your deck can now have EIGHT 1U counter target creature spells !! I wonder if that will ever become an advantage
True_Mumin
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
I still don't understand why this was necessary. Does "Remove Soul" sound too threatening or something? Bollocks!
sir_dwar
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
People, they renamed it because Remove Soul sounds more like a black card. DUH!
Perhaps they did it so that you could essentially have 8 remove soul in formats outside of type II.
thezanet
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
It is what it is. Just another playset of commons for blue players
MrQuizzles
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(20 votes)
So that's what it's like to get killed by M.C. Escher.
f_fivefiftyseven
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
If your running Blue, I think this is a better card to have for removal than Doomblade, particularly with the popularity of Black in standard right now (at a local FNM out of the 8 players, 3 were Jund, 3 were Vamps, 1 was Blue-Black control, and one was Bant)
Stray_Dog
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Yay! My vote managed to move the combined rating up half a star! I feel so privileged.
I like these situational counters, because they really aren't that situational, especially if they cover your deck's inherent weakness.
Essence Scatter is more evocative than Remove Soul, as this spell does not kill the creature, it cancels the 'summoning' of that creature. Remember, a creature spell doesn't actually become a creature until the spell resolves.
And yes I agree with sir_dwar (though he was rather rude :P) -Remove Soul sounds a little too 'black' for my liking (SO HARD to avoid sounding like a racist right now...)
Anggul
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
I often like to think I've turned the summoning of Akroma into kittens.
Zoah
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
I think they renamed it because they want people to buy it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, in standard torments, all cards in the most recent sets are available, even if the actual copy if from an older expansion.
So, if they released remove soul, players would simply rifle though their piles of cards, left over form forever ago, to find a copy of remove soul instead of buying a new one. Also, cards with new names are of higher value. If they had named the card "Remove soul" the card would be of considerably less value.
Oh, and CheloniaMania, you are wrong... Your deck now has twelve. We already had eight. (False Summoning) Best art thus far though!
sarroth
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
When they make functional reprints of cards they do it for one of 2 reasons: 1) the flavor doesn't match up with the new set (as mentioned in a Daily MTG article for the reasoning behind Cultivate being made instead of reprinting Kodama's Reach, as Kodama's Reach had a name that directly connected it with a different block). 2) They want you to be able to play with more. This was likely the reason they turned Terramorphic Expanse into Evolving Wilds. Yes, there are 3 different versions of Essence Scatter, so 12 copies for certain formats, but in EDH that's only 3 card slots...
So perhaps it was a combination of both reasons: they reprinted the name partially because Remove Soul sounds more like it should be a Doom Blade, but they didn't just reprint of False Summoning so that players who really needed 2 CMC counters in their EDH deck would have one more option to fill their slots with.
Do you really think they reprinted a common that at most would cost 25 cents a piece so that they could make more money? If they wanted to make so much more money they'd make a functional reprint of cards that would be worth something, like Vindicate, not tiny commons. Yes, Wizards wants money, as any company does so that their employees can put food on the table, but they're not stupid, Essence Scatter isn't paying the bills.
Why? This doesn't seem to offer much to the game... It's a large creature being cast, so the opponent can either Cancel it or just deal... This seems like cheating.
NuckChorris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Wizards got rid of Remove Soul for this because they did not want to imply creatures have souls? Anyway, playing this on Eldrazi makes my essence happy.
Toes_of_Krosa
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Essence Scatter, Quintessence Condensation
This comment is going to get such a low rating.
JovianHomarid
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I dunno, could another reason why they did not reprint Remove Soul be that pre sixth edition it could not counter artifact creatures (as they were not summon spells)?
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think they made this because "remove soul" sounds more like a black effect.
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http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/241
I like these situational counters, because they really aren't that situational, especially if they cover your deck's inherent weakness.
Essence Scatter is more evocative than Remove Soul, as this spell does not kill the creature, it cancels the 'summoning' of that creature. Remember, a creature spell doesn't actually become a creature until the spell resolves.
And yes I agree with sir_dwar (though he was rather rude :P) -Remove Soul sounds a little too 'black' for my liking (SO HARD to avoid sounding like a racist right now...)
Correct me if I'm wrong but, in standard torments, all cards in the most recent sets are available, even if the actual copy if from an older expansion.
So, if they released remove soul, players would simply rifle though their piles of cards, left over form forever ago, to find a copy of remove soul instead of buying a new one. Also, cards with new names are of higher value. If they had named the card "Remove soul" the card would be of considerably less value.
Oh, and CheloniaMania, you are wrong... Your deck now has twelve. We already had eight. (False Summoning)
Best art thus far though!
So perhaps it was a combination of both reasons: they reprinted the name partially because Remove Soul sounds more like it should be a Doom Blade, but they didn't just reprint of False Summoning so that players who really needed 2 CMC counters in their EDH deck would have one more option to fill their slots with.
Do you really think they reprinted a common that at most would cost 25 cents a piece so that they could make more money? If they wanted to make so much more money they'd make a functional reprint of cards that would be worth something, like Vindicate, not tiny commons. Yes, Wizards wants money, as any company does so that their employees can put food on the table, but they're not stupid, Essence Scatter isn't paying the bills.
This comment is going to get such a low rating.