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Impulse

Multiverse ID: 3641

Impulse

Comments (14)

FencePost
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (2 votes)
I love the "Shuffle Your Library" part of the original printing.
limbrooke
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
They should've never removed the shuffle part. A very used card back in the day that was not too easy to replace.
Qazior
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
That shuffle is kinda funny, because you put those card on the bottom already.
Mudbutt_on
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
SOLID sifter, I would love to see a reprint of this :)
achilleselbow
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Pretty sure removing the shuffle generally makes it better, since you get to take the best card and put the useless ones on the bottom, increasing your chances for a good draw. It does suck if you see two important cards and have to put one out of reach, but I don't think that will happen too often.
izzet_guild_mage
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0) (2 votes)
...oh my goodness. I don't have to shuffle after I use this?? Cool beans :D
metalevolence
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (5 votes)
Whoa whoa whoa whoa. That is a rather significant change to the mechanics! I just cast this the other day, and shuffled, because the card told me to. Why did they change it?
tavaritz
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0) (3 votes)
They changed it because it was never meant to be there. IIRC it was a goof up by the templating group.
themicronaut
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So splashable!
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Impulse is another card in the mold of Brainstorm, Ponder, and Preordain. If you like Vintage or Legacy, you'll want a bunch of copies of these for all your decks. If you like Commander, get 1 copy of every single card in Gatherer that looks remotely like this. (2cmc or less)
Technetium
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Not sure why Ponder is restricted and this isn't. 2 cmc to get any card in the top 4 put into your hand? As an instant? dat cray
madm3001
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oddly enough the translated to Portuguese version of the card did not mention the need to shuffle statement. And as I always played with portuguese cards, I had no idea of that, until I recently played a chaos draft with cards in English. However by the nowadays rule, the Portuguese cards need no errata :).
A3Kitsune
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Not many cards have been reprinted at mythic after being originally printed at common. When From the Vault: Twenty comes out, this card shall join that select group.
MCcreator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ugh. I had this version and until today I thought that the other cards were shuffled in...