Could bring some interesting opportunities to Pods with splicers in the current standard, not sure where else you'd put this card.
nopemx6
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(6 votes)
I can't wait to use this with the promo Acidic Slime. :)
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
They obviously oversaturated this set with blink effects by at least a few gallons.
djflo
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
The issue with this card is there doesn't seem to be enough really good ETB at the moment to make it constructed worthy. Splicers for 3/3s every turn? Too disruptive and not powerful enough. Titan effects? If a titan sticks the opponent is pretty much dead.
Oh good. A replacement for Minion Reflector in my Kavu jank deck. SWEET!
Obviously it's bananas with just about every ETB/LTB trigger creature out there, but that's what came to my mind first.
Splizer
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
From Mulldrifter to Massacre Wurm, this is pretty darn awesome with every enter the battlefield dude.
Oh yes, and shut their draw down with Nevermaker. Turn 5 OUCH.
RAV0004
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
"Target creature you control gets vigilance until end of turn"
Lohran
★★★☆☆ (4.0/5.0)(11 votes)
''Welcome to Narnia''
KarnRestarted
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Sleeper hit in limited, making Mist Ravens more useful and netting repeated life with Goldnight Redeemer, and at the worst untapping a tapped creature you control
DarthParallax
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(6 votes)
This is for fans of Wardrobes, Veils, Vanishing Cabinets, and every other Magic Door you can think of. Wonderful Design here Wizards. You managed to very very nicely melt Development's needs and Design's dreams into some awesome hardcore MAGIC.
Innistrad Block is second only to Ravnica. Maybe Return to Ravnica will top them both! :D
-Swing with Kaalia of the Vast and play Rune-Scarred Demon (or just hardcast it). -Search your deck for this card. Play it. -As long as the demon lives, you may search your deck for one card every turn. Tada! -Also works with Angel of Despair.
sarroth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This does pretty much what I would ever want Cloudstone Curio do (you do lose the ability to flash in a creature to save a creature, but if you're just trying to reuse enters the battlefield effects, you're not doing that) but doesn't make you recast the guy, thus saving you that mana and the chance that it'd get countered, only for an initial investment of {2} over the curio.
theoneandonlyjoseph
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
killer instinct. why, yes i would like to play the top card of my libary (if its a creature), play it for free and give it haste with no drawbacks.
God_Of_The_Smurfs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What's with the strange number of bounce effects in this set? It seems like every other card you see has some sort of exile/un-exile effect.
Nardraug
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is technically the cause of a creature entering the battlefield, right? So if you exile a token with this it's bringing a token onto the battlefield? Could you use this with Parallel Lives??
Negated
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@EbTesaP: YES.
Disturbingly powerful for my RG hatebrew; or it WILL be once I figure out what to cut for a playset of this bomb. Flickering an Acidic Slime or an Invader Parasite will end the game very quickly in your favor. Ramp simply has no answer once this gets online; lots of people aren't even running Ancient Grudge anymore.
I... mean, because he's a... common target of... spells... right?
JarieSuicune
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
No, tokens stop existing when they leave the field. It won't come back.
However, this is AWESOME with "take control of XXXX until end of turn" cards, since you can KEEP control of them. (they come back in under your control, as dictated by this cards effect).
MaDaZi
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Too bad it's not "Pay X: Flicker", but that might be OP
Geralf's Messenger, Culling Dais and Conjurer's Closet. deal 2 damage coming in, sacrifice it, it comes back deals 2 more, then bounce him for 2 more, and his 1/1 counter is gone. repeat.
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Brilliant with Brutalizer Exarch or Entomber Exarch and overall a very comboable card, one of the most so of the set. Johnny says 4/5
JimmyNoobPlayer
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
For my next trick, I'd like a volunteer from the audience. What is your name? Emancipation Angel? Yes, please come up. First, I'd like for you to attack. Didn't she do that very gracefully, ladies and gentlemen? (Applause) Now, step into my Closet. Notice as she comes out, she is now UNTAPPED, and she activated all four Seraph Sactuarys, and bounced one for more lifegain next turn! (Applause) If I wanted to be crude, I could joke about how she activates MY Seraph Sanctuaries, but we're running an all-ages show here. Thank you, you did a wonderful job! (Applause)
My Closet can flicker many fantastic creatures, but I thought you would like a simpledemonstration of its power tonight. Later you can see terrifying demons and lovely angels, giant robots and wurms, and even titans miraculously flickered before your eyes! Good night, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all week!
MechaKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is such an awesome card! It can abuse almost any creature with ETB effects, such as Cathar's Crusade , or Borderland Ranger , to name a few IN STANDARD.
Pigfish99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
insert the doctor who theme here.
liphttam1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In the right deck, this card can make or break a game.
It's perfect for an Ally deck.
BummbleFiddle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This + Geralf's Messenger
>My sides
Hazomere
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So many ETB/LTB options it makes me smile just thinking about it...
I don't know what you would do with this. Repeated Geraf's Messenger? Restoration angel for a bunch of flashing?
I misread it and thought that maybe, just maybe there was finally a way that I could play my Ball Lightning and have stay there, but unfortunately it would only survive one more turn. I mean still, that's 2x it normal lifetime!
PsychoDan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@JarieSuicune: Actually, this does work on tokens. You're right, of course, that tokens that leave the battlefield cease to exist, but it's a state-based action that removes them. Because the blink effect here is instantaneous, priority doesn't change and thus state-based actions aren't checked while the token is not on the battlefield. There's a Wizards article about all this somewhere from when Momentary Blink came out.
This is definitely an EDH card, though. It really shines with Commanders with ETB/LTB effects, since you know you'll always have a useful target for it.
Cowboygoneinsane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ok I have one quick question if I have 2 Conjurer's Closet in play and a Grave Titan can you both closets on the one grave Titan????
Then just keep a few counter-spells like Cloudshift at the ready and they can't touch you. Then just wait until you get an end-game card. Assuming they're not using decks like Burn or Mail, which then you can just sideboard in a Witchbane Orb.
TzarChasm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned any of the titans here, because, well, it makes sweet love to any of them.
LlanowarEmissary
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
There's a strong possibility this may wind up in a few of my EDH decks...so many utility creatures to use and abuse.
Cubozoan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This has so much potential for wonderful shenanigans: There's all manner of decks that would appreciate it.
If that doesn't strike your fancy, we could stick to standard and run this alongside the likes of Nephalia Smuggler, Restoration Angel and Deadeye Navigator. As for the creatures to abuse, the selection is vast: Blade Splicer and Geist-Honored Monk will build your army with each reentry, Aether Adept and Mist Raven can repeatedly bounce every creature your opponent plays, Mentor of the Meek will, for a fee, draw you a card whenever one of them appears, and hopefully I don't need to remind you why Snapcaster Mage is bananas. Stonehorn Dignitary will guarantee that your opponent will never attack again. Come M13, Sphinx of Uthuun and Captain of the Watch rejoin standard, and you'll be wreaking even more enters-the-battlefield havoc. Whatever you choose to do with the closet though, have fun with it!
When Snapcaster Mage couldn't get even MORE annoying.
Dabok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I got 2 of these in my fatpack. I was disappointed at first, but now I sure am glad I've pulled 2 of these! I'm currently utilising it in a white/blue deck with ETB effects (Aether Adept, Precursor Golem, Geist-Honored Monk, Wing Splicer, Blade Splicer, etc.) It's not competitive, but it's FUN to use (even my opponents are having fun because it's not a usual kind of deck to play with/against) 4/5
Matsumoto
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Play this with Lilliana's Shade...every end steep you gain a second swamp...awesome way to build up power, and thin your deck down, while gaining mana advantage, thus making your shade stronger.
Eindacor_DS
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Been using this with a Gravedigger and a Rune-Scarred Demon. Lets me hand-pick my hand and bring back anything that dies.
Alsebra
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
@PsychoDan - It wouldn't work on tokens; the whole ruling on tokens includes this passage:
"A token that has left the battlefield can’t move to another zone or come back onto the battlefield." - Rule 110.5g
You're correct that state-based actions aren't checked until priority is passed, but this supersedes that ruling.
@Cowboygoneinsane - I believe that you could target the creature with both and, once the titan popped back in, the second one would send it away again, since the ability doesn't include the 'at end of turn' clause.
Unfortunately no, as whenever a token changes zones, in this case moving to the exile zone, it is immediately destroyed. Try instead Sundial of the Infinite, using it when the sac trigger pops.
flavioal28
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Sure, it can be fun with a lot of cards that have "When this card enters the battlefield" effects, but the price is steep, and the card suffers for it. This would be good at 4, so you could play your Thragtusk on turn 5 and blink it every turn, It would just make the card SO MUCH BETTER!
Mycoloth has fun with this, makes tokens, flickers and devours them, makes more tokens, flickers and devours those, repeat until army is sufficiently stupid sized, win
xSabrielx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My favourite use of this card so far is by using Mark of Mutiny to gain control of my friends 64/64 Primordial hyrda, he fogged the damage, and i proceeded to "put it in the closet"at end of turn so it returned with 0/0 counters.
Then swang in for the win on my next turn, thats what you get for banking on hydras.
Smoke_Stack
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Tyrant of Discord
Redmag3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Dominus of Fealty escorts the creature to the stage, the closet sends them on an Astral Slide then Dominates it. When it comes back it's good to go sideways on it's owner next turn.
This thing basically gives Ghave 5+ new counters every single turn. I think the best play I've done so far was using the witness to get my Genesis Wave back four turns in a row, got out almost my entire deck.
I love this card i use it in a U/R temporary control deck to keep creatures I also love blending it with Stonehorn Dignitary to stop my friends annoying aggro decks cold
Logistican
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@DeckMechanic: This works with Unearth to keep it on the battlefield; the necessity of exiling the creature went on the stack targeting a specific creature. When that creature is exiled and returned, it is returning as a "brand new" creature, and not the target of the requirement.
In other words, if you use Conjurer's Closet on an Unearthed creature then you get to keep the creature on the battlefield afterward since it technically is not creature that was Unearthed. Note you have to use the Conjurer's Closet on the creature BEFORE you use the exile condition that was triggered on as printed on the card.
Zoroaster85
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Combos with any creature that has, "When (creature's name) enters the battlefield (or 'play'), ..."
But the best is when the creature reads, "When (creature's name) enters the battlefield (or 'play), ... AND When this creature leaves the battlefield (or 'play')..."
4/5 (would give it a 5 if it cost 3 to cast) 5/5 for the fun factor
Dragonshoredreamz
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is great with Balustrade Spy or Sepulcral Primordial though the options are many more!
Raexs
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Dominus of Fealty ... Don't use it on him, but on the creatures you steal. Exile them with the Closet before you have to give them back. They come back as a new instance of the creature under your control permanently. Voila - you just scored a new friend... in the closet.
TheGamingBrony
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
if you have more that one of these on the battlefield maybe because of Prototype Portal could you repeatedly flicker Primeval Titan or Sylvian Primordial to get a ton of mana ramp or would all of the flickers go off at once and thus needing different targets?
FaceClaimer
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
TITANS.
ShatterPalm
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Buddy of mine uses this in some interesting ways in his Selesnya deck. Bounce Trostani's Summoner or something similar and get tons of creatures, or, if you have a Serra Avatar and Trostani, Selesnya's Voice out gives you a constant life doubling. Take your pick.
I'm sure someone has come up with this already, but hey, why not.
@Alsebra & Cowboygoneinsane - Nope, if a creature leaves the battlefield and returns it is treated as a different creature. If you target the same creature with the ability twice, the first will resolve and the second will have no valid target because the creature it targeted left the battlefield.
kiseki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The timing is great for a deck that already uses Flickerwisps and Glimmerpoint Stags. Unlike many artifacts, this triggers at the end of your turn, so you get a use out of it they turn you play it. Presumably, every card in your deck benefits, but it gets better than that...
When used on a flickerwisp-type card, it brings it back too late for the end of battlefield clause to apply again that turn. So when the 'wisp comes back, you can pick one of your opponent's permanents to be gone for their entire turn. It is amazing how often they have one key land/creature/planeswalker/etc that they need on their turn...
I'm giving it five stars because the artwork and flavor make me want to start humming the theme to Quantum Leap every time I see it.
Oh, and it does a bunch of cool bouncy stuff too, but that's been covered pretty thoroughly.
Tbwulf
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wish I had a set so I could build a mono black deck around it and those lovely Devotion cards...
roninshinhan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have to ask, what with all the talk of Aetherling and Obzedat, Ghost Council, how would this card interact with Whip of Erebos? Would it supersede it's trigger like the aforementioned cards or would the Whip still get rid of things permanently? It would trigger the "If it would leave the battlefield..." portion of the effect, but would the creature return only to get exiled again, or would it stick around when it came back?
Belgarath123
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would almost use this in my bant creature ramp/ Venser flicker, but Venser does the job fine. If i built a deck with this, I would use Phyrexian Ingester or Exclusion Ritual for an exile each turn
sky_fire
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Permanently keep the creatures you reanimate with Whip of Erebos!
C5r1a5z0y
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great in a deck with a lot of Threaten effects. If their guy survives combat, you get to keep him; if not then hopefully he went down swinging. In a similar vein, Vedalken Shackles lets you permanently steal one creature a turn.
seahen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Alsebra I'm pretty sure it would work if the text said "it" instead of "that card".
DrDkt666
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have little doubt. Can i exile Ball Lightning with this so i don't have to sacrifice it at the end of the turn?
Lazenca_Seifus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ DrDkt666 - Sort of, but not really. You play Ball Lightning and attack with it. End step, stack BL's trigger first, then CC's. CC trigger resolves, blinks BL, then BL trigger resolves, does nothing since it's a different object. BL survives. Hooray! Then, on your opponent's end step, BL drops dead and CC can't help. But, you can block with it, so, that's something?
Comments (90)
Combo with older stuff however... Sharuum, The Hegemon, Sundering Titan, Duplicant, Angel of Despair, even Nekrataal.
Obviously it's bananas with just about every ETB/LTB trigger creature out there, but that's what came to my mind first.
Oh yes, and shut their draw down with Nevermaker. Turn 5 OUCH.
Wonderful Design here Wizards. You managed to very very nicely melt Development's needs and Design's dreams into some awesome hardcore MAGIC.
Innistrad Block is second only to Ravnica. Maybe Return to Ravnica will top them both! :D
This or Venser, the Sojourner turn 5.
-Swing with Kaalia of the Vast and play Rune-Scarred Demon (or just hardcast it).
-Search your deck for this card. Play it.
-As long as the demon lives, you may search your deck for one card every turn. Tada!
-Also works with Angel of Despair.
Disturbingly powerful for my RG hatebrew; or it WILL be once I figure out what to cut for a playset of this bomb. Flickering an Acidic Slime or an Invader Parasite will end the game very quickly in your favor. Ramp simply has no answer once this gets online; lots of people aren't even running Ancient Grudge anymore.
I... mean, because he's a... common target of... spells... right?
However, this is AWESOME with "take control of XXXX until end of turn" cards, since you can KEEP control of them. (they come back in under your control, as dictated by this cards effect).
My Closet can flicker many fantastic creatures, but I thought you would like a simple demonstration of its power tonight. Later you can see terrifying demons and lovely angels, giant robots and wurms, and even titans miraculously flickered before your eyes! Good night, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all week!
It's perfect for an Ally deck.
>My sides
Sunblast Angel to keep them from swinging,
Rune-Scarred Demon for infinite tutor,
Pelakka Wurm for +7 life each turn,
Pentavus for pentavite factory?
Myr Battlesphere for +4 myr tokens each turn
This list could go on indefinitely
I misread it and thought that maybe, just maybe there was finally a way that I could play my Ball Lightning and have stay there, but unfortunately it would only survive one more turn. I mean still, that's 2x it normal lifetime!
This is definitely an EDH card, though. It really shines with Commanders with ETB/LTB effects, since you know you'll always have a useful target for it.
EVERY TURN.
Then just keep a few counter-spells like Cloudshift at the ready and they can't touch you. Then just wait until you get an end-game card.
Assuming they're not using decks like Burn or Mail, which then you can just sideboard in a Witchbane Orb.
Might I suggest a Grand Architect deck? You could run Conjurer's Closet and your choice of Mirrorworks and/or Mimic Vat, and then abuse the EtB abilities of blokes like Solemn Simulacrum, Precursor Golem, Myr Battlesphere and Pierce Strider. Step out of standard and things get even juicier: Esper gives access to all sorts of wonderful toys, such as Sphinx Summoner, Filigree Angel, Faerie Mechanist, Baleful and Parasitic Strix, and, of course, Sharuum the Hegemon.
If you're a jerk, you can run a UB control deck with this, Ghostly Flicker, and the likes of Ravenous Rats, Liliana's Specter and Skinrender. Don't forget that the Closet and a Chittering Rats lock down your opponent's draws indefinitely.
If that doesn't strike your fancy, we could stick to standard and run this alongside the likes of Nephalia Smuggler, Restoration Angel and Deadeye Navigator. As for the creatures to abuse, the selection is vast: Blade Splicer and Geist-Honored Monk will build your army with each reentry, Aether Adept and Mist Raven can repeatedly bounce every creature your opponent plays, Mentor of the Meek will, for a fee, draw you a card whenever one of them appears, and hopefully I don't need to remind you why Snapcaster Mage is bananas. Stonehorn Dignitary will guarantee that your opponent will never attack again. Come M13, Sphinx of Uthuun and Captain of the Watch rejoin standard, and you'll be wreaking even more enters-the-battlefield havoc. Whatever you choose to do with the closet though, have fun with it!
I was disappointed at first, but now I sure am glad I've pulled 2 of these!
I'm currently utilising it in a white/blue deck with ETB effects (Aether Adept, Precursor Golem, Geist-Honored Monk, Wing Splicer, Blade Splicer, etc.)
It's not competitive, but it's FUN to use (even my opponents are having fun because it's not a usual kind of deck to play with/against)
4/5
"A token that has left the battlefield can’t move to another zone or come back onto the
battlefield." - Rule 110.5g
You're correct that state-based actions aren't checked until priority is passed, but this supersedes that ruling.
@Cowboygoneinsane - I believe that you could target the creature with both and, once the titan popped back in, the second one would send it away again, since the ability doesn't include the 'at end of turn' clause.
Unfortunately no, as whenever a token changes zones, in this case moving to the exile zone, it is immediately destroyed. Try instead Sundial of the Infinite, using it when the sac trigger pops.
Then swang in for the win on my next turn, thats what you get for banking on hydras.
Woodfall Primus
Eternal Witness
Sylvan Primordial
Ghave, Guru of Spores
Spike Weaver
Mycoloth
The list goes own. I think this thing has at least some interaction with almost every creature in my deck lol.
This thing basically gives Ghave 5+ new counters every single turn. I think the best play I've done so far was using the witness to get my Genesis Wave back four turns in a row, got out almost my entire deck.
In other words, if you use Conjurer's Closet on an Unearthed creature then you get to keep the creature on the battlefield afterward since it technically is not creature that was Unearthed. Note you have to use the Conjurer's Closet on the creature BEFORE you use the exile condition that was triggered on as printed on the card.
Examples: liliana's specter, augur of bolas, goblin settler, knight of the white orchid, acidic slime
But the best is when the creature reads, "When (creature's name) enters the battlefield (or 'play), ...
AND
When this creature leaves the battlefield (or 'play')..."
Example: thragtusk
4/5 (would give it a 5 if it cost 3 to cast)
5/5 for the fun factor
...
Don't use it on him, but on the creatures you steal. Exile them with the Closet before you have to give them back. They come back as a new instance of the creature under your control permanently. Voila - you just scored a new friend... in the closet.
I'm sure someone has come up with this already, but hey, why not.
Lavinia of the Tenth.
Boom.
When used on a flickerwisp-type card, it brings it back too late for the end of battlefield clause to apply again that turn. So when the 'wisp comes back, you can pick one of your opponent's permanents to be gone for their entire turn. It is amazing how often they have one key land/creature/planeswalker/etc that they need on their turn...
Oh, and it does a bunch of cool bouncy stuff too, but that's been covered pretty thoroughly.