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I just threw up in my mouth.
EVEN IF YOU WERE PLAYING ANTE, THIS WOULD ONLY MAKE EVERYONE HATE YOU ANYWAY.
Man, I'm glad I jumped into Magic on Mirrodin. Some of these early cards... Bleck.

It's also dumb spelling "lose" as "loose"...

Quit being a sissy, we used to HAVE to play for Ante back then.

But if this card is so useful why would you want to ante it instead?
I could only imagine someone having like 100 copies of this card :P

Swap your Juzam for this 50 cent bird, and it's a cantrip to boot!

Lemme tell ya, this card was everyone's friend.

Wow. This is only an uncommon. That makes it even better, I guess? If you were playing for ante, why *wouldn't* you run a playset of these in your deck?

This goes into the list of "Cards with activated abilities you really don't want to play with Experiment Kraj"

well, just like all the ante based cards, it dosnt say you have to replace it with anything when you take it out.... so you could use it along with the baubles in order to make a deck that is effectively 4 cards smaller.

When your Lord of the Pit is sittting in the ante pile and you've got Animate Dead in your hand top decking this thing is spooge-tacular (and yes I played a black ante deck, 4 contracts = you win the other players cards)

"Quit being a sissy, we used to HAVE to play for Ante back then."

Is that why all ante cards state that they have to be removed from your deck if you aren't playing for it? That's not the Oracle text; that's what is printed on the actual cards.

If you run a recursion deck with two of these and Demonic Attorney, I'm quite sure your nose will start suddenly bleed. Great card though.

They should add ante on Magic Online. Consent of course.

I still play for ante on occasion. It's fun, and makes the game worth playing.

@SlackWareWolf:
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Congratulations!

You are right, and all those people who don't play this game for ante are sissies who just aren't Man enough to play this game the way it was played eighteen years ago. It can't just be that they simply enjoy other methods of play, depending on the situation (possibly including Ante, when consented to by all players), because there is only one right way to play the game, and that's your way. And only wusses would ever mulligan, or let an opponent mulligan, because the only acceptable way to play this game of strategy is to gamble on the games, and then allow chance to skew the results to an irrecoverable degree. Anyone who has any opinion other than this single view is clearly inferior.

While we're at it, lets do away with those silly ban lists, restricted lists, the increased minimum deck size, and most certainly that four-copies-per-card limit. Constructed deck restrictions aren't what Magic is about, after all, and that surely holds true even with modern cards, because the game hasn't massively changed over the years at all, right? If my opponent can't beat my deck of 40 copies of Chancellor of the Dross, then they deserve to lose on turn zero and lose a card permanently, to boot.

And what's with all these different formats, and card rotating out, huh? Eighteen years ago, no cards had rotated out, and that's the way this game should stay forever, no exceptions. All cards ever printed should be usable in all contexts, and there should never be divergent rules systems that must be balanced in distinct ways, often by disallowing certain cards or altering fundamental rules of the game. The only thing that these different formats do is give new players the impression that there are numerous acceptable ways to play this game, all of which can be enjoyable in different ways, for different reasons. We don't want them getting that wrong idea stuck in their heads. Then they might even commit that most atrocious crime of failing to be informed on an outmoded rule referenced by very few cards, and done away with in the earliest days of this game, from before when many of the newest generation of players could form whole sentences.

Good job, you've successfully changed the mind of a random stranger on the internet by ranting about their inferiority due to having tastes that differ from yours, and now that person is just as closed-minded and bigoted over a card game as you are. Don't you feel oh so very satisfied?
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Your true friend and convert,
Summer Glau

Me and my friend used to play for ante. Then one night I took about 15 cards from him. He would have really benefited from this card.

This card is actually pretty useful if you use things that involve anteing more yourself (especially if they encourage your opponent to ante more, too, like Rebirth.) Ante a bunch, then swap it all for one bird.

All the pros own like 420 of these, hands down