mana floating for the win.
psychatog for the epic win
Pwnsaw
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(11 votes)
Use after a high tide for extra mana to float. Also good with quicken to use on enemies turn to force massive discarding.
Megrimage
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
spellbook, so you dont lose it all.
klutz27
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Looks like a sweet card but how does this affect cards that are exiled or suspended?
Omenchild
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(11 votes)
cards like this are lame
SorianSadaskan
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(6 votes)
Relinquary Tower can be used to store your hand.
HairlessThoctar
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(9 votes)
This is an evil, evil, unfun card.
Belz_
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@klutz27:
Suspended cards are not permanents, therefore they are not affected.
Mustached_Stranger
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
This is an evil, evil, wondrous card.
drunyon
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is amazing in madness decks. If it resolves, you are probably going to win.
You can use any floating mana to replay your Wild Mongrel, and you can discard your Basking Rootwalla into play at the end of turn. If you have those two cards out and your opponent has no permanents in play, they might as well just scoop.
zk3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Back when this was standard, resolving it usually resulted in a win - people equated it to Yawgmoth's Will in terms of what it did in the environment. It's slower than will, but standard is slower than vintage. Neither are game-winning on their own, but TPS or UB tog are well-built decks that integrate these trump cards. When this resolves, all the spells (permanents) you played for the entire game come back for grand finale.
ratchet1215
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(5 votes)
What an unfun card. I think I'd punch the guy who played this in a casual game.
Warped Devotion says, "Sac it all!" I guess that makes a fun wincon combo in a Madness deck.
Prizrak
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"The calm comes after the storm?"
Pretty sure this + a bazillion 0-drops means the calm is definitely still before'the Storm'.
OpenSeasonNoobs
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I love this card. Cards like this are what make veteran magic players drool over the possibilities, the things that we will spend hours looking up cards to build a deck around.
land_comment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ouch. You have to discard a LOT by 6th turn.
thisisnotmyname
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I played this in a janky high tide deck, and returned all my friends slivers to his hand on turn five, and then played three storm crows with the spare mana. He lost the game and his pride.
GracefulInferno
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The biggest sorcery-speed middle finger blue has to offer.
BlackAlbino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this has to be my favorite flavor text ever
Gabriel422
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This with "Empty all mana pools" would've been fair. Worldpurge was too cautious, but this one definitely dominated Standard for quite some time, whose metagame was something like 6 Psychatog-Upheaval decks, 2 Wind Mongrel decks in the Top 8. (though Fact or Fiction and friends were probably the cards to blame)
EGarrett01
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(6 votes)
One of the most unbalancing and least color-appropriate cards ever made. It's thinly veiled as a bounce spell but in reality it's a color that's supposed to have trouble dealing with permanents getting a dominant game-changing crushing board sweeper. Seriously, it's just dumb and totally removes all weaknesses for blue.
Black Upheaval 1B
Instant
Target player sacrifices an artifact or enchantment.
Green Upheaval 1G
Instant
Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
And so on...
Guest1381794618
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Oddessy block:
Turn 3: Psychatog Turn 4: Wormfang Drake targeting the tog.
Turn 5: Circular Logic or some other such control to protect your drake.
Turn 6: Upheaval for profit.
Thank god there wasn't all that much mana accel going on back then. Coulda been much uglier than it already was.
TheLionsMane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use with Jin-Gitaxias and Spellbook. Fun.
stille_nacht
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
warped devotion 8D
Arachibutyrophobia
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
venser's journal yea, just WATCH your opponents try to kill you.
occamsrazorwit
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@TheLionsMane:
Good luck getting out Jin-Gitaxias in one turn before you have to discard.
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
And to think it only costs 1 more than Evacuation.
EvilCowKing
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
"Instant Win" mid-game in a Blue / Black Deck:
1. Don't play your land for the turn. 2. Cast Upheaval. 3. Play a Swamp, tap, Dark Ritual -> Megrim / Liliana's Caress.
If your opponent has 20 life, making them discard 10 cards (shouldn't be difficult at all by that point in the the game) will win you the game as soon as their clean up step comes. Just hope they're not playing W, or else it's Plains, tap, Demystify for you! xD
shotoku64
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(2 votes)
NOT FOR EDH. EVERYBODY WILL HATE YOU
Purple_Shrimp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Type your comment here.
BongRipper420
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos with that Oblivion Ring that's been sitting around on your win con, regardless of who played it.
The only reason you'd want to Oblivion Ring your creatures.
brunocunha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Everything I love about blue in one card. 5/5
Antsache
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just because I don't see many people talking about it: whatever its uses were back in its standard days, it takes on a whole new kind of power in today's cube formats. If you can early pick Upheaval, the rest of your draft is focused on picking up as many mana rocks and decent counterspells as you can get. Going off is easy: float all your mana, Upheaval, replay as many of your ramp artifacts as possible, tap them (for the second time that turn), and keep playing stuff. Your opponent is set back to turn one, but you're often looking at 6+ mana available on your next turn.
Enelysios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Others have said so many combos already, this card is absurd. Blue board wipe...
Easy 5/5, my favorite and arguably one of the best board wipes in the game.
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psychatog for the epic win
Suspended cards are not permanents, therefore they are not affected.
You can use any floating mana to replay your Wild Mongrel, and you can discard your Basking Rootwalla into play at the end of turn. If you have those two cards out and your opponent has no permanents in play, they might as well just scoop.
When this resolves, all the spells (permanents) you played for the entire game come back for grand finale.
Pretty sure this + a bazillion 0-drops means the calm is definitely still before 'the Storm'.
Black Upheaval 1B
Instant
Target player sacrifices an artifact or enchantment.
Green Upheaval 1G
Instant
Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
And so on...
Turn 3: Psychatog
Turn 4: Wormfang Drake targeting the tog.
Turn 5: Circular Logic or some other such control to protect your drake.
Turn 6: Upheaval for profit.
Thank god there wasn't all that much mana accel going on back then. Coulda been much uglier than it already was.
Good luck getting out Jin-Gitaxias in one turn before you have to discard.
1. Don't play your land for the turn.
2. Cast Upheaval.
3. Play a Swamp, tap, Dark Ritual -> Megrim / Liliana's Caress.
If your opponent has 20 life, making them discard 10 cards (shouldn't be difficult at all by that point in the the game) will win you the game as soon as their clean up step comes. Just hope they're not playing W, or else it's Plains, tap, Demystify for you! xD
Cast with thragtusk.
Warped Devotion
Easy 5/5, my favorite and arguably one of the best board wipes in the game.