A bit pricey, but it get's around indestructible and regeneration.
Zoah
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Why are there only two cards in the game with fateseal?
Sour_Diesel
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Zoah Because it hasn't been made yet. Its a Sight from the Future
Horos_god_of_magic
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
This card is amazing in EDH. You can put an opponent's general on the bottom of his or her library.
KikiJikiTiki
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
One of about a dozen cards that combo well with Tunnel Vision, which, incidentally, also works very well in EDH. Sen Triplets is a good general for this combo.
Lyoncet
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I think this card deserves a decent rating, if only because it's bloody blue targeted removal that also messes with dredge or graveyard-based triggered effects, gets around indestructibility, and gives you a more flexible way to deal with non-counterable cards than Mindbreak Trap or Time Stop. Yeah, it's expensive, but unless I'm missing something it's mono-blue's only one-card, targeted, permanent, all-purpose creature removal. You can Icy Prison/Eon Hub something, or Diminish/Prodigal Sorcerer, or Disorient/Twisted Image, but none of those will permanently remove something on their own. (Reality Acid will work if you have the luxury of waiting 3 turns). There's also a few cards like Mind Control, Control Magic, Steal Artifact, and Rootwater Matriarch, but with the prevalence of things like Disenchant and Naturalize, and even Unsummon to fizzle the enchantment at any point, I'd be wary about calling those permanent spot removal.
Yeah, tutor effects, particularly Besieged's crown jewel Green Sun's Zenith, will laugh at this (unless they get countered), but against decks without tutors, this is about as permanent as you get outside exile, and it's in a color that is notoriously bad at permanent spot removal (and hasn't really had one since Unlimited). At the same time, 5 CMC, even if 4 of it is colorless, is pretty hefty even at instant speed, and if a big threat has slipped past your counters, you may not be able to last long enough to deal with it. In any other color, this would be a 2.5-3 or so, but in blue, I'm willing to bump it to 3.5/5.
Maraxas-of-Keld
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(6 votes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo
AMart83
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Blue needs to see more removal like this.
Rating: 3 of 5
A bit too pricey to cast when most of the time you're only dealing with a single threat. And the creature would probably have done it's damage by turn 4 or 5. But if you're playing mono-blue control, then you should have enough time to use this before any damage has been done.
What would've been great: -Target up to 2 creatures. -Cost of
Unfortunately, hexproof and shroud are becoming more common and necessary.
wholelottalove
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Fateseal is such a great mechanic. Wizards needs to stop with the stupid crap like Infect and Unleash and go back go fun mechanics.
ParishInquisitor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
: Target player doesn't see their general for a long, long time.
I really hope fateseal makes an appearance in the near future; it's such a great mechanic, especially against cards like Liliana Vess or Worldly Tutor that put the tutored card on top of your opponent's library.
RunedServitor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Epic blue removal. Gets rid of all sorts of stuff all sorts of other removal can't.
@Lyonset: Not exactly blue's only unconditional one-card single-target permanent removal; Blue also has Pongify and now the Pongify near-clone Rapid Hybridization. However, I wouldn't call those all-purpose, as sometimes a 3/3 is too much to give them.
MacBizzle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Put my opponent's general on the bottom of their library, followed by a Tunnel Vision? I am okay with this.
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
for almost-not-quite "destroy target creature"... and infuriating in EDH.
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Yeah, tutor effects, particularly Besieged's crown jewel Green Sun's Zenith, will laugh at this (unless they get countered), but against decks without tutors, this is about as permanent as you get outside exile, and it's in a color that is notoriously bad at permanent spot removal (and hasn't really had one since Unlimited). At the same time, 5 CMC, even if 4 of it is colorless, is pretty hefty even at instant speed, and if a big threat has slipped past your counters, you may not be able to last long enough to deal with it. In any other color, this would be a 2.5-3 or so, but in blue, I'm willing to bump it to 3.5/5.
Rating: 3 of 5
A bit too pricey to cast when most of the time you're only dealing with a single threat. And the creature would probably have done it's damage by turn 4 or 5. But if you're playing mono-blue control, then you should have enough time to use this before any damage has been done.
What would've been great:
-Target up to 2 creatures.
-Cost of
Unfortunately, hexproof and shroud are becoming more common and necessary.
I really hope fateseal makes an appearance in the near future; it's such a great mechanic, especially against cards like Liliana Vess or Worldly Tutor that put the tutored card on top of your opponent's library.
@Lyonset: Not exactly blue's only unconditional one-card single-target permanent removal; Blue also has Pongify and now the Pongify near-clone Rapid Hybridization. However, I wouldn't call those all-purpose, as sometimes a 3/3 is too much to give them.