Too bad it's no in standard for everybody to utilize...oh well.
Dragon_Whelp
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is what the Care Bears would look like in card form.
Teotanek
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Can I use them with mana maze ? .
ye, die emrakul, die !
Auteur
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Hideously limited in its applications. You could use Moonlace if you hated Emrakul that much.
greenred4ever
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Step 1: Tap Step 2: Turn Permanent a Different Colour Step 3: ??? Step 4: PROFIT!
NARFNra
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(29 votes)
BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED, I AM DARK SUSPICIOUS LOOKING MAGE
greg2367
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
you cant kill emrakul guys you cant even cast the spell targeting him, so its not on the stack so you cant change it's color.
Test-Subject_217601
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
♪ Do the Carebears countdown! ♫
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
DAT COLOUR WHEEL REPRESENTED IN TEH ART.
tavaritz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Does a colorless spell produce a colorless permanent?
NuckChorris
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I don't know if anyone reading this was aware of this when this happened, but if I recall correctly there was a Power Rangers controversy over this card, which ended with many sad children as the Rangers could not take the case to court. It may have been a dream, but I remember it pretty vividly. In any case, Power Rangers season 2, you will not be forgotten.
Amnesigenic
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
You can still use this to hit emrakul, you just have to cast a spell targeting something else, then change it to colorless, then change the target with another spell or ability to emrakul. it works.
will_dice
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@oHspoke
You know when I read this card's flavour text way back when, I thought that the answer was "mana". To this day, I still don't know if that's the correct answer to this "riddle".
I think the answer is... Ersatz Gnomes.
It could be Naked Singularity, but it goes the other way around (from sea to jungle, not from jungle to sea).
oHspoke
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
You know when I read this card's flavour text way back when, I thought that the answer was "mana". To this day, I still don't know if that's the correct answer to this "riddle".
EDIT: I got it now! If you look at the back of your Magic card (assuming it's not double-faced) you see the arrangement of colors in Magic. Drawing a line from jungle (green) to sea (blue), from sea to stone (red), from stone to field (white), from field to bone (black), you almost get a pentagram or star. It just needs another verse to finish it. :\ Also, Ersatz Gnomes seems like an anagram for something with star?
TPmanW
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
Go go Gnomish Rangers! Seriously though, it's a cool combo card and you have to love that art.
Paolino
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
"Ersatz" is the German word for "substitution".
I can't rate this card but five stars: they are five gnomes shooting energy rays under the command of a dark mage, they substitute color with colorless and they are called like "Substitution Gnomes", they have a rhymed flavor text with a Zhalfirin riddle...
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Why don't I have 50 of these yet?
Goes to Ebay
....
I have no money...but I have lots of pretty colors now! Yay! :D
Arachnos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@juggling: Also the one on the front is FIRING HIS LAZOR!
Or maybe just retching.
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The answer IS the pentagram of colors. That simple.
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
They're not shooting rays...there's one for each colour, they literally suck the colour out of spells and permanents!
Also...anyone else get here by searching Gatherer for "Ersatz"?
Aburaishi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@LordRandomness: No.
Stinga
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Wait...this could not be used to target Emrakul, at least without being redirected after being cast. The spell would target Emrakul while still being colored, which is a no-no.
Krysto
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This doesn't really help you target Emrakul (Emragurd!) with SPELLS, but it does help you turn various assassin cards into colorless creatures, which does the job all the same. It's as simple as - Icy Manipulator + Gnomes on Royal Assassin. Similarly, this card is pretty darned amazing at making certain removal spells work because suddenly black creatures can now become non-black creatures... Also similarly, if you have some way of pumping out 15 damage from a single source, which doesn't specifically target creatures with protection, just make the damage source colorless to bypass the protection.
ParallaxtheRevan
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
IN BRIGHTEST DAY IN BLACKEST NIGHT, BEWARE YOUR FEARS MADE INTO LIGHT, WITH STRONG HEARTS FULL OUR SOULS IGNITE, TOGETHER WITH OUR HELLISH HATE, BY MY BLACK HAND, THE DEAD SHALL RISE!
elhajjaj
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Question: Could this guy make a Reality Strobe colorless as it comes out of suspension?
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Re: elhajjaj's question about targeting Reality Strobe with this when it unsuspends, the answer is "sort of."
A card coming out of suspension is cast as if it were played from your hand, so it goes on the stack and can be targeted with effects like this, making it colorless.
The catch is that when it re-suspends itself, it's moving itself to a different zone, which means its "history" is erased and it stops being colorless. So you can make one casting of it colorless, but it won't be colorless the next time it goes off.
Mode
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That artwork suggests anything but colorless.
Unless that's supposed to show that the mage casts a multicolored spell on the gnomes, of which each one filters a particular color of the spell and spits its mana out in a mostly colorless light. Or something around those lines.
raptorman333
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ TPmanW: if we learned anything from Grumpy Cat, it's that I don't have to love anything! hhrrummph
Comments (31)
That guy in the back has it made! Gnome minions, magical powers, and killer looking cloak!
Too bad it's no in standard for everybody to utilize...oh well.
ye, die emrakul, die !
Step 2: Turn Permanent a Different Colour
Step 3: ???
Step 4: PROFIT!
You know when I read this card's flavour text way back when, I thought that the answer was "mana". To this day, I still don't know if that's the correct answer to this "riddle".
I think the answer is... Ersatz Gnomes.
It could be Naked Singularity, but it goes the other way around (from sea to jungle, not from jungle to sea).
EDIT: I got it now! If you look at the back of your Magic card (assuming it's not double-faced) you see the arrangement of colors in Magic. Drawing a line from jungle (green) to sea (blue), from sea to stone (red), from stone to field (white), from field to bone (black), you almost get a pentagram or star. It just needs another verse to finish it. :\ Also, Ersatz Gnomes seems like an anagram for something with star?
Seriously though, it's a cool combo card and you have to love that art.
I can't rate this card but five stars: they are five gnomes shooting energy rays under the command of a dark mage, they substitute color with colorless and they are called like "Substitution Gnomes", they have a rhymed flavor text with a Zhalfirin riddle...
Goes to Ebay
....
I have no money...but I have lots of pretty colors now! Yay! :D
Or maybe just retching.
Also...anyone else get here by searching Gatherer for "Ersatz"?
It's as simple as - Icy Manipulator + Gnomes on Royal Assassin.
Similarly, this card is pretty darned amazing at making certain removal spells work because suddenly black creatures can now become non-black creatures...
Also similarly, if you have some way of pumping out 15 damage from a single source, which doesn't specifically target creatures with protection, just make the damage source colorless to bypass the protection.
BEWARE YOUR FEARS MADE INTO LIGHT,
WITH STRONG HEARTS FULL OUR SOULS IGNITE,
TOGETHER WITH OUR HELLISH HATE,
BY MY BLACK HAND, THE DEAD SHALL RISE!
A card coming out of suspension is cast as if it were played from your hand, so it goes on the stack and can be targeted with effects like this, making it colorless.
The catch is that when it re-suspends itself, it's moving itself to a different zone, which means its "history" is erased and it stops being colorless. So you can make one casting of it colorless, but it won't be colorless the next time it goes off.
Unless that's supposed to show that the mage casts a multicolored spell on the gnomes, of which each one filters a particular color of the spell and spits its mana out in a mostly colorless light. Or something around those lines.