I think this'll be fun to try to pull off in Limited. Milling a 40 card deck will be easier. Mind, you may not get all the cards you need, so be careful.
jsttu
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This seems fairly powerful for its cost, is a common, (and thus could form a mill limited deck given multiples) and has nice synergy with Jace's Phantasm, leaving it so they need only three more cards in the grave before you have a 5/5 flying for .
Totema
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I think it's a just little too close to Tome Scour in power, but any more would put it too close to Glimpse the Unthinkable, as well. I'll need to run it to see for certain, but it looks like it fits pretty well on the power curve. Also, superb flavor.
Was there ever a time when the milling strategy was, well, a strategy and not merely a deck filled with 'Mill X cards' and a bunch of counterspells? The problem with mill these days is that its very much a brainless archetype in that you just mill, counter, mill, ad nauseam. In many ways the modern approach to milling mirrors the change that Poison unwent when it became Infect. Both milling and Poison went from being strategic, slow-play methods, to being brute force methods.
Vakyoom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Too bad it doesn't say "Target player". Won't make it into my self mill deck unfortunately. But like everyone said, it'll see play in mill and delver/jaces phantasm decks.
blindthrall
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Eternal_Blue: Yup, I've still got my {U}/{W} mill deck, and it still uses millstones.
j_mindfingerpainter
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Jace Mind Sculpts. I mind fingerpaint. Huh.
Anyway my (I mean Jace's) Phantastic Phantasm would like Glimpse the Unthinkable to be reprinted. Because B/U control decks don't have enough powerful cards (extreme sarcasm).
I think it's kind of funny how all these Jace-related cards vary so much as far as CMC. That is, Omniscience.
I have a feeling Return to Ravnica's going to pretty cool what with a graveyard theme in Standard and it itself being on a Plane of awesomeness.
4dscdriver
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would be good in a Threshold deck.
Galrac
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@4dscdriver: Actually it wouldn't because it can only hit opponents. If they are playing a threshold deck they probably love it :)
DytjeSaurr
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@ Arachobia...
Tome Scour may cost one mana less, but it also only mills for 5 per card, using two tome scours requires you to use two cards from your hand, so card-advantagewise Mind Sculpt is better.
Glimpse the Unthinkable requires black mana to be cast which makes it unusable in monoblue mill, there's also a lower chance to be able to use it on turn two. Not to mention it is a rare and not standard legal.
This card was my main victory condition during prerelease; 2 of these and 2 Archaeomancers totalled 28 milled cards, 33(40-7from starting hand) - 28 is 5, Vedalken Entrancer was there to finish the job.
Quite possible one of my favourite arts and favourite cards overall from the set, the reason being it is so balanced.
pedrodyl
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
After I take your bending away, you will be nothing!
Barjin-N-Blastum
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
w/o reading other comments.
SERIOUSLY? so the 4 copies of just this spell that I'm always going to be using in just about every blue or partly blue deck will eliminate 28 cards? That's dang near half a small deck.
LOVE IT. 5!
Phage123
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card is not "bad" just because is is outclassed by Glimpse. It is a very solid card, and it even has a few advantages to Glimpse: it can be run in mono-blue, it's a common, and it costs about $20 less than its blue-black counterpart.
That said, let's still hope that Glimpse the Unthinkable will make it back to Standard in October for Return to Ravnica!
tmoporo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
a good replacement for glimpse if u couldnt afford one.
rambocop
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Awesome Name! Sweet Reference! This Card Is Going To Rock Standard.
5/5
Tiggurix
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Jace's such an ***.
MindAblaze
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Well...there has to be mediocre cards to have the good ones stand out. We were fundamentally unprepared for Jace to sculpt our minds before, so we complained about power creep making the game un fun. Now even a glimpse of this unthinkable power leak brings just as strong complaints...we're just waiting to be traumatized by this nemesis of reason, irrationally complaining about both sides of the coin, hoping for everything to stay in stasis, with haunting echoes of the Power nine. There's a reason some cards are good and some cards are bad, do you want our memories pouring out of our brains like falling skulls (ie. return of the king)
Exclaimer999
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Amazing synergy with Threshold cards.
JaceMysticMind
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love this card in A card milling deck...im a newer player but in personal decks i play with friends this card paired with Mystic Retrieval is a monster card...Pretty much that is 21 cards an opponent has to mill through...times that by four that is 84 cards which in most cases is a win situation...
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Same concept as lava spike, but normally doesn't combo with attacking// other damage. Rise from the Grave is a different ball game... but thats a different discussion.
Lotsofpoopy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This set gets yet another milling champion!
spartan7023
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
my friends hate this card i think its good just for that
MrLe3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
why do people say this card is so bad? even if your'e not running the mill deck, when you play it, you might get rid of 7 of youre opponents good cards... i don't really see the difference between mind rot and this, except this gets rid of more cards, and he cant choose...
DeviousPie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This card has terrible flavor because it doesn't win the game for you.
Chazwald1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This was far too much fun at the M13 prerelease. Guessing it works rather effectively in Limited too.
Continue
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Hopefully Glimpse will come back in Gatecrash. For now, this will do. 3.5/5
Silurus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have a combo that includes Grozoth, Brain Freeze, Mind Sculpt and Mind Funeral. I play Grozoth and search the library for and number of cards that total up to a mana cost of 9. I'd search for Mind Sculpt (2), Brain Freeze (2), Mind Funeral (3) and another card(s) that make up the last 2 mana (in my case, it would be Quest for Ancient Secrets and Vile Rebirth). First I would cast Quest for Ancient Secrets followed by Mind Sculpt and Mind Funeral. Next up would be Vile Rebirth (putting a 2/2 token on my side) and last but not least, beloved Brain Freeze putting the top 3 cards of target players library into the graveyard and repeating itself for each spell played before it making a total of 15 cards going to the graveyard. When we sum it all up, target player lost 7 cards with Mind Sculpt, 15 with Brain Funeral and God knows how many other cards with Mind Funeral making it 22+ cards gone and 4 counters on Quest for Ancient Secrets needing only 1 more to put my graveyard into my library to play it all over again.
JararoNatsu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the cheapest cards in Magic.
cotf1692
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@Silurus You know Gozoroth only searches for cards with CMC of 9, and not cards that CMC adds up to 9 right?
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Should have said top seventy and said 'play only if you control a Blue Planeswalker and a Battle of Wits' to make it good for Commander.
JUST KIDDING! ;)
Still. I kinda want to see a non-Planeswalker spell mill for more than an Archive Trap sometime :)
This thing is very rough already and quite splashable. Wizards says Glimpse is too powerful for Standard, and moving Mill away from Pure Mill to Mill + Grind, they are right probably. The Problem with Glimpse the Unthinkable is that it can seriously power up a graveyard based deck. You wouldn't see it in the "Real Mill Decks'', because you'd be seeing it in really dum Grave Hax decks instead. Next to Visions of Beyond. Glimpse the Unthinkable will have to wait for Modern Masters or some other Multiplayer Box for it's reprint.
ZimmerRemmiz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If only it was target player it'd work fantastically with Threshold...
Goatllama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love being milled. It's all about the attitude - do you freak out at the cards gone to the graveyard? No! You shrug it off and continue the beatdown, tearing through their protection like a Storm Crow's wings cut through the windy skies.
Xineombine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Black is useful when it comes to card advantage as well as blue Blue has Ancestral Recall and Brainstorm Black has Yawgmoth's Bargain and Necropotence Black also has Duress and Hymn to Tourach
MisterAction
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Euuugh. That flavor text. What an ass.
D1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome card for two mana. I try to use it with Ishocron Scepter in my mill deck to use turn after turn.
Arachobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Disgusting.
For the price, you could play 2 tome scour if the 1 was blue or a glimpse the unthinkable if the 1 was black which will both net you ten milled cards. In addition you can not target your own deck, which was the only justification I could come up with when I saw this card originally before I read "target opponent".
So a limited mill card that once it is out of standard will only be played be people lacking tome scours or glimpse the unthinkables.
This and searing spear are some of my least favorite cards in the deck because they are completely outshone by comaprable cards (from the last bloody core set!) and are just plain standard fodder
Edit: Yeah, I think I was angry about something when I posted this. Ignore this foolishness, it is WRONG
Comments (41)
Milling a 40 card deck will be easier.
Mind, you may not get all the cards you need, so be careful.
Anyway my (I mean Jace's) Phantastic Phantasm would like Glimpse the Unthinkable to be reprinted. Because B/U control decks don't have enough powerful cards (extreme sarcasm).
I think it's kind of funny how all these Jace-related cards vary so much as far as CMC. That is, Omniscience.
I have a feeling Return to Ravnica's going to pretty cool what with a graveyard theme in Standard and it itself being on a Plane of awesomeness.
Tome Scour may cost one mana less, but it also only mills for 5 per card, using two tome scours requires you to use two cards from your hand, so card-advantagewise Mind Sculpt is better.
Glimpse the Unthinkable requires black mana to be cast which makes it unusable in monoblue mill, there's also a lower chance to be able to use it on turn two. Not to mention it is a rare and not standard legal.
This card was my main victory condition during prerelease; 2 of these and 2 Archaeomancers totalled 28 milled cards, 33(40-7from starting hand) - 28 is 5, Vedalken Entrancer was there to finish the job.
Quite possible one of my favourite arts and favourite cards overall from the set, the reason being it is so balanced.
SERIOUSLY? so the 4 copies of just this spell that I'm always going to be using in just about every blue or partly blue deck will eliminate 28 cards? That's dang near half a small deck.
LOVE IT. 5!
That said, let's still hope that Glimpse the Unthinkable will make it back to Standard in October for Return to Ravnica!
5/5
Guessing it works rather effectively in Limited too.
You know Gozoroth only searches for cards with CMC of 9, and not cards that CMC adds up to 9 right?
JUST KIDDING! ;)
Still. I kinda want to see a non-Planeswalker spell mill for more than an Archive Trap sometime :)
This thing is very rough already and quite splashable. Wizards says Glimpse is too powerful for Standard, and moving Mill away from Pure Mill to Mill + Grind, they are right probably. The Problem with Glimpse the Unthinkable is that it can seriously power up a graveyard based deck. You wouldn't see it in the "Real Mill Decks'', because you'd be seeing it in really dum Grave Hax decks instead. Next to Visions of Beyond. Glimpse the Unthinkable will have to wait for Modern Masters or some other Multiplayer Box for it's reprint.
Blue has Ancestral Recall and Brainstorm
Black has Yawgmoth's Bargain and Necropotence
Black also has Duress and Hymn to Tourach
For the price, you could play 2 tome scour if the 1 was blue or a glimpse the unthinkable if the 1 was black which will both net you ten milled cards. In addition you can not target your own deck, which was the only justification I could come up with when I saw this card originally before I read "target opponent".
So a limited mill card that once it is out of standard will only be played be people lacking tome scours or glimpse the unthinkables.
This and searing spear are some of my least favorite cards in the deck because they are completely outshone by comaprable cards (from the last bloody core set!) and are just plain standard fodder
Edit: Yeah, I think I was angry about something when I posted this. Ignore this foolishness, it is WRONG