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Flash

Multiverse ID: 3337

Flash

Comments (21)

RKay
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (7 votes)
Hooray for getting an ability named after you!
Mode
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (5 votes)
Although evoke looks much more like this card than flash does.
Rainyday2012
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (6 votes)
In the Hulk Flash deck, you use this to "evoke" Hulk, yes. But the card was probably intended to give a creature card "flash".
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (6 votes)
Got an ability named after it, invented another ability, restricted in Vintage, banned in a handful of other formats, this is a great card.
inmypants22
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (10 votes)
5/5 just for the amazing art.
themlsna
★★☆☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (13 votes)
This art is absolutely awful.
Androx
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0) (8 votes)
@themlsna
this card is completely ridiculous, any card with an enter the battlefield or leaves the battlefield effect becomes an instant, i mean it turns emrakul into time walk.
scumbling1
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (8 votes)
"i mean it turns emrakul into time walk."

You might want to double check on that.
Alsebra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (5 votes)
Last I knew, Time Walk didn't cost 15 mana...
blurrymadness
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Awesome enabler of combos. They probably didn't think about all the "enters play" bits they might do in the future when they built this guy.
Salient
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0) (3 votes)
The art for this card makes no sense.
SirZapdos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Sweet card. It gives all of your creatures Evoke. It also makes Goretusk Firebeast playable.
brunsbr103
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
ahem

This still causes enter the battlefield effects to trigger, even if you do not choose to pay the difference in the mana. So you play this card, choose Emrakul, it goes into play, and it leaves play once you choose to not pay the difference in mana (causing you to shuffle your graveyard into your library but that's not important). If you haven't gotten it yet, it comes into play. That means you get an extra turn. For the same casting cost as time walk.

I hope that clears things up
Angus_Burger
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@brunsbr103

Emrukal reads: "When you CAST Emrakul, take an extra turn". Not when he comes into play, but when you cast him, meaning pay 15 mana. If you cheat him into play, with flash or anything else, you do not get the extra turn.
Blind_At_Heart
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why are people saying this art is awful? Really? Look at the set that it's from! WHO CARES! This card is awesome and if they ever printed this with new art I'd still want the old one because it's the original!
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I dont think this card was intended to be "evoke". There was a total of 0 things to abuse when this came out.

So if any card needs an oracle, its this card. The wording was designed not to be abused, but more so because they were not sure how else to word it. And they did oracle this card for awhile, and when they changed it back, it quickly broke legacy in half, followed by Banned/Restricted.
Anzu-chan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It should be :

" As an additionnal cost, discard a card named Protean Hulk.
You win the game. "
Todris052
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"What was THAT?"
"Huh? What?"
"Nevermind, it's gone."
The_AC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That guy photo-bombed a painting?
Drewskithelegend
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The sac ability actually makes the card more broken... Who woulda guessed it?