Makes an awesome Standard combo with Spelltwine T6, Laboratory Maniac T7 with mana open for Rewind. Also great with Omniscience, especially in Legacy with Show and Tell. The epitome of blue mythics, as it is unique, powerful, and when you see it you say "Wow"
5/5 for awesome Timmy/Johnny lulz
blunt_shark
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(19 votes)
Presenting the next banned EDH card!
MasterOfBearLore
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(18 votes)
I always wondered how much it would cost to draw your entire deck.
12 CMC. Question answered.
ThisisSakon
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(9 votes)
@MasterOfBearLore: And how much would it cost to play everything afterward?
TimmyForever deserves top comment on this. Thread closed.
tanglestasis
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
There are somethings that should not be made because they are to powerful and then there are somethings that should not be made because they are just disappointing and this is one of the latter winning with some oddball combo makes for a good story chaining a tonne of random spells is more interesting then “uhh drew my deck and won” which this card provides
had it been Each player draws cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. all non-land cards have flash Players may cast nonland cards from your hand without paying their mana costs.
that would have been interesting at least(and insane i admit)
SyntheticDreamer
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(9 votes)
If you can't win the game after resolving this, then something must be wrong with you, or the rest of your deck is all lands. And something is wrong with you.
(ponder ain't standard so I'll need a substitute for that).
TheKazu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card should have been called Omniscience cost {3} less but {U} more and not have the part about putting one on top of your library. And then it should have had some flavor text about how you can know everything only for the moment before you die.
Too bad they wasted blue's "goal in life" on a flavor fail and destroyed the chance of ever making a "Omniscience"/"Omnipotence"/"Freedom"(eh)/"Peace"(maybe)/"something green" cycle.
Hey, you should totally build a non-EDH deck around this card.
Control your opponent's board. Gain lots of life. Stay alive. Wait several turns until you get 12 mana. Then you cast this card, draw your library, then,
............... that means you automatically win next turn because you drew all of the cards in your library........... amirite??
Or here's another idea: Build a deck that let's you cast this for less than 12 mana, or even for free. Of course, that strategy was not possible until this card's existence and there has never Ben any other spell that would practically win outright upon being cast........ until now.
Oh, and ummm............ Omniscience. You heard it here first!
Artscrafter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Purplerooster:
"2. Spelltwine at turn 6 3.Next turn: Play land- Faithless Looting discard Omniscience"
And how do you stop yourself from losing because you just drew two cards off of an empty library?
flavioal28
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Probably the same guy that proposed printing omniscience. someone in R&D likes playing blue EDH
Either Wizards is printing too many ridiculous EDH cards as of late, or it's clear that EDH is run by players who will ban anything if other players suggest it a lot. I'm gonna go with a combination of both.
Not a fan. There's better things to do with big mana, and if you have infinite mana there are faster ways to end the game. Drawing your entire deck is never necessary, as witnessed by the existence of Ad Nauseam combos that do just as well while only drawing ~20 cards.
martianshark
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ThisisSakon: You would probably put down Omniscience first to cast this. The total cost for drawing them all and then casting them all is 10.
PhantomDust
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I accidentally all the ideas
psychichobo
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Plonk a land on top of your library, and at the end of the following turn's discard step pitch an Eldrazi. Simple enough.
Winterhawk200
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
combos well with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth in your deck, probably a couple of copies.
Cast this, draw your deck except a card. end your turn
Next turn - Draw your last card, turn play anything you want except at least one copy of Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. then at the end of turn discard down to seven making sure you discard Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth then shuffle your graveyard into your library,
Next turn - repeat if you are lucky LOL
The_Trendkill
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ugh. I want to like this card, but the effect is so absurd that I can only shake my head. I've seen several people independently create a "draw your entire library" card while they were toying around with creating their own cards. The effect is something that I've heard overzealous Johnny/Timmy hybrids bring up when working out how they plan to achieve an outrageously convoluted combo. "Well, just wait until I draw my entire library..."
It's painfully obvious that this is the card you want to cast when you resolve Omniscience. The trouble is that this an exemplary "win-more" card. Commander/EDH notwithstanding, if you have 12 mana available (or have Omniscience in play) why haven't you won the game already?
azure_drake222222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This costs so much...
j_mindfingerpainter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm considering making a deck called Spellol just to troll people, and have been since this was spoiled. Some of you guys said what I'm about to mention, but no I didn't copy your idea. Sorry.
So how it works is you ramp. A lot. Until you can play Doubling Season (no autocard needed). Then you cast Jace, Architect of Thought and use his ultimate. It can go a lot of places from there. You can plop Emrakul (kinda lame in my opinion), you can tutor this card (good, but could be better) or you could find Omniscience. While testing, I always go for Omniscience if I have this in my hand. Then I cast my whole deck, basically the same effect as casting Primal Surge in a deck with no other non-permanents. If Emrakul and my other fatty beatsticks aren't able to get enough damage in, Laboratory Maniac wins for me. Also, I threw in Wheel of Sun and Moon (because I already had Jace 4.0 and Doubling Season).
For some reason, it works wonders.
Don't rate this card on playability. Rate it on Mythic-ness. 5/5 from me.
Edited as I had a typo
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't care how practical this card is. I don't care if I never get a chance to use it. I don't care if it's basically suicide if you don't know what you're doing.
This card exists. That makes me HAPPY.
zerosavant
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
In Commander EDH, I don't see why one would spend so much time trying to cast Enter the Infinite using Omniscience when they could just use Dream Halls. Much easier.
Smoke_Stack
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I CAN HAZ ALL THE CARDS??
Torquebacklash
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Clearly EDH matterial. If you can green mana ramp into mass land first it might be ok. I sadly got one adn i wanna trade it away.
Come on, guys. 2.9/5? If you get this thing out it's GG. With Omniscience and, better yet, Dream Halls, that's trivially easy. I don't know about you, but being able to have all my ideas for just 5 mana seems pretty devastating.
Rick_MacLennan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This plus Omniscience and Borborygmos Enraged makes me a happy Timmy/Johnny.
Draw library, then discard each remaining land for 3 damage a piece. Add a Psychic Spiral or Elixir of Immortality into the mix to recycle lands, and if it wasn't game over already, it soon will be.
I would also concur with Superllama12's recommendation regarding using Spelltwine.
Jhyrryl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Once in play make sure to have a Reliquary Tower, then before each of your turns start, sac Dark Revenant. As long as Dark Revenant doesn't get exiled, you can spend as much time killing your opponent as you want.
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Okay. Gameplay wise, if you've built your deck right, you successfully resolve this, you win. That's worth a decent rating right there. And if your deck is built right, you'll either cheat this out or ramp to it.
You know what the most important part is, though? It's a 12 CMC mythic sorcery with insane Terese Nielsen artwork and flavor text courtesy of Niv-Mizzet. If that's not fantastically badass, I don't know what is.
sunshinesan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would it have killed them to give you no maximum handsize for the rest of the game?
snied
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@SRSFACE, I disagree, I see no reason why you can't get this out in standard. I have a standard omniscience deck that I'm reworking and I've gotten omniscience on the field plenty of times. Not to mention that with unexpected results you could potentially cast omniscience for free as early as turn 3.
ChosenOfKhaine
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(7 votes)
IMO, this should be called Omniscience, and Omniscience should be called Omnipotence, and be black.
Kaleidostorm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just once I want to do this with am omniscience out.
"Oh hey, I'm getting bored of this game. Mind if I just throw my entire library at you?"
manic_headcase
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
well if you're not too picky on the card set it comes from, Library of Leng would work really well with this card! ;D oldy but a goody!
BongRipper420
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I can't imagine not scooping against this spell.
TheWaddleDeeKing
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Good in EDH. Anywhere else you'll more than likely lose before getting out twelve mana.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A potential game ender in Niv-Mizzet EDH. It's a shame that commander damage is combat only, but you might be able to snipe at least two other players in the process of all that drawing.
I may be wrong, but I don't think that'd work. Unexpected Results requires you to shuffle library before you draw card.
Antsache
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Doghealer
I think I'd rather let it resolve and then just Cerebral Vortex for the win, either by mill or damage.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(7 votes)
People are down-hate-rating this card. Except it's not a Broken Mythic Timmy Bankslayer. It's not a Broken Spike Haxxor Wallet Sculptor. It's not even a Goblin-Minded Commander Hosing Worldfire. And it ISN'T actually any kind of Crazed Johnny Engine that does much besides Mills Yourself. You basically are casting Jace's Ultimate on Yourself unless you do something Stupidly Broken.
This wanted to be a card LIKE Omniscience, but it over shot and it's really.....it's actually just Blue Necropotence. And because it's Neutral, not EVIL, the flavor isn't cutting it to justify its existence.
there's only one card you really have a legitimate excuse reason to be playing with this card: Battle of Wits. That's the only way to re-insert FUN into this card. Wizards WANTED this card to be fun, but it's gettin only a 2.9 rating because Nobody is Having Fun with it.
Melvin is just bored with how useless your own brain is made when you include it in your deck. Johnny doesn't feel insane, he feels like Spike. Spike knows it's crap. Timmy sees no Power and Toughness, and dismisses it. Vorthos is experiencing a schism where some people defend it and some people call Flavor Foul, and that makes even its defenders not really feel as good as if it was just plain obviously Correct Ballpark-Hitting-Out-Of Flavor.
This card was Designed to do absolutely nothing productive or useful or strategic or thematic other than generate ONE Moment of Awesome that was supposed to be "Fun". That Moment of Awesome...
simply -won't- be Awesome, and it won't be Fun, unless you REDEEM this card, and use it with BATTLE OF WITS. And Go Ahead. Use the Battle of Wits' comment board's idea for a FOUR-hundred spell deck.
For every 100 cards, there is one of each of these: (Let's count to 100!)
That is a 4th of the Deck built for you, you figure out the rest. :) (Don't forget Green. There is Maelstrom Wanderer and Praetor's Counsel to consider. Oh and Confusion in the Ranks) I will be coming back to comment on this card as I find more cards for this deck, and possibly take out anything Order and Consistency related. :D Quick Math: with 40% lands, 400 cards, you need to run 160 Lands. Very good news for Boundless Realms :D
blanchard23
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this plus eureka plus labratory maniac is instant win, anyone have any good ideas on how to get this out early and cheap in a deck with the other 2?
Odium1995
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I made a draft deck with this and Borborygmos Enraged. I never got the combo off but I would love to see a 60 card deck that can ramp up to those two spells and somehow become competitive. Yes I just got all the ideas to kill you with the help of someone who only says two phrases. I now feel silly not realizing that lot more people thought of this too. (grumble lazynesstocheckothercomments grumble)
I like the idea, because with Enter the Infinite, it becomes, "I draw my entire deck! Ha!" With Omniscience, it becomes "I play my entire deck! Now what?" With Tamiyo's Emblem, it becomes "I play my entire deck! And again. And again. And I can keep playing this spell an infinite number of times until you lose! And I have counter spells in my hand in case you want to even try to do anything! Responses?"
djflo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No need for these complicated things. Once you play this, if you've got a Conflagrate in your deck and triple R mana you win.
yesennes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Foot note should read: *For use with Psychic Spiral.
Guest1876140363
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Why is there a pillbug in the lower right corner of his fantasy?
georgyporgy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
well now that dragons maze is almost out, im thinking enter the infinite then you play trouble for the win.. seems like a awesome combo to me.
TexasDice
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I got a foil version out of a booster. I've never seen anything more beautiful before.
TPmanW
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Possibility Storm is from the same block. Just thought I'd point that out.
Academy Rector is probably the best way to cheat the combo everyone already knows about here... Although you'll need to have this in your hand, or a tutor to get it with.
Note that due to the wording of this card ("Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library" as opposed to something like "Put all of the cards in your library into your hand") you lose by resolving this with Thought Reflection out. This could've happened when I played my Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind EDH, in which this card normally reads, "You win." If you're trying to deck yourself to win with Laboratory Maniac and don't have Thought Reflection out, this+2 Gitaxian Probes (12 mana + 4 life) or this+Thoughtscour (13 mana) are the most card-efficient ways to do it (assuming you can't cast a Braingeyser big enough). Have all the ideas!
Maybe I'm missing something, but did you read what Battle of Wits does?
I really can't take you seriously, saying that the only way to make this card fun is to use it with Battle of Wits. It makes no sense.
Titanium_Dragon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It is a cute card, but the problem is that it doesn't actually do anything. The only purpose of this card is to cheat it into play, as at 12 mana, it is just too expensive to include in your deck otherwise - and even still, chances are it is just more expensive than any other win condition would be. There are cards which cost less mana than this which effectively win you the game.
Roahim
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
@darthparallax
yer an idiot dude. you have the most condescending, high-and-mighty sounding post i've ever read on here and you don't even get what battle of wits is about, which is ironic, considering the name of the card. yer not good at doing forums.
seriously, reading your entire post made my brain hurt. it's so packed with true blue ignorance that it's nearly hilarious, but not really funny because you're being dead serious.
this is a great card. possibility storm is what you should have thought of. then a 2 cmc sorcery of any color could turn into this and yer not even obligated to cast it if you don't want to.
Melvin is just shocked with how clueless darthparallax's brain is when you don't know what battle of wits does. Johnny doesn't feel stupid anymore after reading your post. Spike knows what it can really do. Timmy is you. Vorthos is content.
OrgasmandTea
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You don't even have to cast this card to win. Cards like Mercurial Chemister and Blast of Genius can be used to deal massive damage by discarding this, since so few cards in the entire game have such a high mana cost.
And then you cast Spelltwine afterwards, and you've pretty much won.
Let's be honest, anyone who rates this card low is clearly a moron who just likes to play power magic and is incapable of complex thought processes. It's quite fitting that this card is too difficult for them, actually.
Cloak_of_Mists
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I find it clunky, even disruptive. I like it when Blue plays in an elegant swiftness. This is too comboeque for my taste
Kryplixx
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
This was Wizard's email to Terese Nielsen on how to approach this card.
Color: Blue spell (unguilded) Location: Unimportant Action: Show a close up of a face that has just received all the knowledge in the universe. The expression is that of seeing the immensity of the infinite that both awes and terrifies. It is agony and ecstasy at the same time. At the edges, the face is beginning to fracture into geometric pieces, and the further out from the face that we go, the pieces are turning into all manner of birds, beasts and creatures that wriggle and crawl, flowers, trees, vines and symbolic ***. The pieces are spaced more and more apart the further they are from the face as if the face is exploding apart revealing the infinite void. Focus: The fracturing face. Mood: Identity dissolved in infinite knowledge. Notes: Terese, this is a powerful card that lets you draw your entire deck... you can cast anything! Please make it appropriately impressive and dramatic!
If you have Niv-Mizzet out already, this card deals X damage where X is the number of cards in your library. Not the most efficient way to win but I'll bet it feels pretty darn satisfying!
THAT is the tear from my eyes once I pull this card out from the booster. T___T
MizziumSculptor444
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you ever hardcasted this card, you need to stop playing blue.
Mosstone
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Okay, so I don't see this in any of the comments: Hive Mind. Done. You win. Doesn't matter how many people you are playing against, as long as you are the only one with sufficient safeguards against burnout, and you have no teammates to lose the game for you (the no. 1 killer of burn decks).
All the safeguard would take is having a self-bounce card like Progenitus somewhere in your deck, and something to keep people from making you draw out.
If you have friendlies with you, I suppose you can use Bazaar Trader to give them something like Nivmagus Elemental so they don't have to resolve their copy of the spell, though it would be hard to get both out without first having used Enter the Infinite
Winning games off of me talking to myself on forums yet?
Do you know whats sad? How this card protects you from discarding everything. I mean if you cant win or throw down a spellbook, you deserve to discard everything.
konokono
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ancestral Recall! I force you to draw 3 cards!
adolphus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
it's cards like this that people remember and talk to others about, all the more to make this game memorable.
This CAN be made to work with Battle of Wits. It's not even that expensive. Give yourself an extra turn: Final Fortune. Put a graveyard-recycling effect on the stack: Feldon's Cane. In response, discard your hand: One With Nothing. End your turn. Untap. Win.
If you're going for Modern-legal or already have plentiful blue mana in your pool (which I figure is likely as an infinite-mana combo is how Enter the Infinite was likely cast in the first place), Time Warp can sub in for Final Fortune; Elixir of Immortality can fill the same role as Feldon's Cane, although it's strictly more expensive (and yes, Feldon's Cane IS Modern-legal, it was timeshifted). There are several ways of discarding your hand, but the only one cheaper than One With Nothing is not even remotely Modern-legal.
EDIT: I actually bought myself a pair of these for my Twinsanity (Twincast + Sanity Grinding) deck, mainly for the cost, I have a lot of library/hand filtering and usually discard it out if it is in my hand, but Shelldock Isle with this under it is the most fun finish of all time.
Okay, any card with an effect that will win you the game is at least decent. However, cheating out instants and sorceries is harder than most permanents. Counterlashing an opponent's sorcery could be effective and relatively cheap, but what if they don't cast one?
I can think of some janky three card combos (Galvanoth + Brainstorm?) But that is frankly too many pieces to ever rely on, so I will say what I generally say for these high CC "I win" cards. Jhoira of the Ghitu.
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I played this once in a game of EDH with Vorel of the Hull Clade as my general. My deck was in sleeves. I needed to have some assistance to hold my entire hand. Also, I can see a U/B deck being made with some number of infinite combos (enter the infinite combos, ha) and this, Omniscience, and Necropotence. I draw my whole deck, I play my whole deck, and if I don't win this turn, that's fine, I have my whole library as a hand until I win.
Enkki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love how the flavor text is Niv-Mizzet (it’s defiantly something he’d do), and how well this card goes with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind. These two cards are great flavor-wise and combo-wise! :D
NickDay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, with four Goblin Electromancers out, this spell only costs 8 total to play!
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Welcome to the infinite my friend, How can I help you?
4/5 Stars
NinjaFish
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is no one gonna say it? Okay I will : Laboratory Maniac. Pretty solid two card win condition for a mono blue EDH deck
Rogem
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Comboes with Kamigawa block.
animalchubs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
what about using this with Necropotence and Venser's Journal?
I think that's the counter to Omnishow I've been waiting for. :) (Teeg is also fine..)
That out of the way; the flavor of this is pretty awesome. It's like a blue mage pours all of his will into finding Nirvana, finds it; and his mind nearly explodes; but he's got enough control over things to not go insane. It has such a Obi-Wan nature to it too; Niv Mizzet beaconing you to remember this one-line lesson; and boom; the world is yours.
Fat_Corgi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So named because you clearly had to have an infinite mana ramp in order to play it.
"Don't just give a point of damage - give ALL THE DAMAGE." - Niv-Mizzet
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Skirge Familiar is nice to have out with this. Just slap Phage and Lightning Greaves in the deck somewhere and you're good to go.
PlaneSlayer96
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Floorsweeper- Successfully pulled that off this past week :D I had 68 cards left in my deck, and my opponents were at exactly 68 life combined. One of my opponents made a token with Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, and gained 5 life off that and a Healer of the Pride. Then I attacked him with a Sturmgeist.
This really should have had some drawback. The mana cost isn't enough to be prohibitive similar to Omniscience. At least Dream Halls affects all players and you have to discard to use it - i.e. requires some smarts and deck planning to use it well. With this card it's 8UUUU: You win the game
4/5
Ideatog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I really like the art. It reminds me of the old style of art they used to have- mysterious, multi-faceted, and open to many interpretations. Not like this canned photoshop trash they print on all the cards nowadays. Now if only they could get the Foglios back.
Comments (109)
5/5 for awesome Timmy/Johnny lulz
12 CMC. Question answered.
A: Ten
had it been
Each player draws cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.
all non-land cards have flash
Players may cast nonland cards from your hand without paying their mana costs.
that would have been interesting at least(and insane i admit)
You're never gonna get it off in constructed, but sometimes it's just fun to imagine what you could potentially do.
2. Spelltwine at turn 6
3.Next turn: Play land- Faithless Looting discard Omniscience
4. Serene Remembrance Omniscience and it's self
5. Ponder- drawing Serene Remembrance
6. Unexpected Results Omniscience
7. Profit- Play ALL the spells.
(ponder ain't standard so I'll need a substitute for that).
Too bad they wasted blue's "goal in life" on a flavor fail and destroyed the chance of ever making a "Omniscience"/"Omnipotence"/"Freedom"(eh)/"Peace"(maybe)/"something green" cycle.
Control your opponent's board.
Gain lots of life.
Stay alive.
Wait several turns until you get 12 mana.
Then you cast this card, draw your library, then,
............... that means you automatically win next turn because you drew all of the cards in your library........... amirite??
Or here's another idea:
Build a deck that let's you cast this for less than 12 mana, or even for free. Of course, that strategy was not possible until this card's existence and there has never Ben any other spell that would practically win outright upon being cast........ until now.
Oh, and ummm............ Omniscience. You heard it here first!
"2. Spelltwine at turn 6
3.Next turn: Play land- Faithless Looting discard Omniscience"
And how do you stop yourself from losing because you just drew two cards off of an empty library?
Fill in the rest with stall stuff like bounces, fog banks, board wipes, and mana excel. standard battle of wits deck, someone has to do it.
WOTC: "Hey Niv, we didn't think your EDH deck was Johnnytastic enough so we made this."
Niv: "ROTFLMFAO"
Turn 2 Drop Land and play show and tell Play Omniscience then play Enter the Infinite put a land back on top, play all your extra turn spells with a Blightsteel and Lightning Greaves and Kill someone
Turn 3 (First of your extra turns) Kill Another Person, move to discard Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre move to Next Extra turn and Keep Killing
Cast this, draw your deck except a card. end your turn
Next turn - Draw your last card, turn play anything you want except at least one copy of Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. then at the end of turn discard down to seven making sure you discard Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Kozilek, Butcher of Truth then shuffle your graveyard into your library,
Next turn - repeat if you are lucky LOL
It's painfully obvious that this is the card you want to cast when you resolve Omniscience. The trouble is that this an exemplary "win-more" card. Commander/EDH notwithstanding, if you have 12 mana available (or have Omniscience in play) why haven't you won the game already?
So how it works is you ramp. A lot. Until you can play Doubling Season (no autocard needed). Then you cast Jace, Architect of Thought and use his ultimate. It can go a lot of places from there. You can plop Emrakul (kinda lame in my opinion), you can tutor this card (good, but could be better) or you could find Omniscience. While testing, I always go for Omniscience if I have this in my hand. Then I cast my whole deck, basically the same effect as casting Primal Surge in a deck with no other non-permanents. If Emrakul and my other fatty beatsticks aren't able to get enough damage in, Laboratory Maniac wins for me. Also, I threw in Wheel of Sun and Moon (because I already had Jace 4.0 and Doubling Season).
For some reason, it works wonders.
Don't rate this card on playability. Rate it on Mythic-ness. 5/5 from me.
Edited as I had a typo
This card exists. That makes me HAPPY.
Draw library, then discard each remaining land for 3 damage a piece. Add a Psychic Spiral or Elixir of Immortality into the mix to recycle lands, and if it wasn't game over already, it soon will be.
I would also concur with Superllama12's recommendation regarding using Spelltwine.
You know what the most important part is, though? It's a 12 CMC mythic sorcery with insane Terese Nielsen artwork and flavor text courtesy of Niv-Mizzet. If that's not fantastically badass, I don't know what is.
"Oh hey, I'm getting bored of this game. Mind if I just throw my entire library at you?"
Also, Handsome Jace is handsome.
BEST COUNTER EVER.
I may be wrong, but I don't think that'd work. Unexpected Results requires you to shuffle library before you draw card.
I think I'd rather let it resolve and then just Cerebral Vortex for the win, either by mill or damage.
This wanted to be a card LIKE Omniscience, but it over shot and it's really.....it's actually just Blue Necropotence. And because it's Neutral, not EVIL, the flavor isn't cutting it to justify its existence.
there's only one card you really have a legitimate excuse reason to be playing with this card: Battle of Wits. That's the only way to re-insert FUN into this card. Wizards WANTED this card to be fun, but it's gettin only a 2.9 rating because Nobody is Having Fun with it.
Melvin is just bored with how useless your own brain is made when you include it in your deck.
Johnny doesn't feel insane, he feels like Spike.
Spike knows it's crap.
Timmy sees no Power and Toughness, and dismisses it.
Vorthos is experiencing a schism where some people defend it and some people call Flavor Foul, and that makes even its defenders not really feel as good as if it was just plain obviously Correct Ballpark-Hitting-Out-Of Flavor.
This card was Designed to do absolutely nothing productive or useful or strategic or thematic other than generate ONE Moment of Awesome that was supposed to be "Fun".
That Moment of Awesome...
simply -won't- be Awesome, and it won't be Fun, unless you REDEEM this card, and use it with BATTLE OF WITS. And Go Ahead. Use the Battle of Wits' comment board's idea for a FOUR-hundred spell deck.
For every 100 cards, there is one of each of these: (Let's count to 100!)
1. Battle of Wits.
2. Enter the Omnipotent.
3. Omniscience.
4. Fact or Fiction.
5. Brainstorm.
Intuition.
Ponder.
Preordain.
Merchant Scroll.
10.Time Reversal.
Time Warp.
Time Stop.
Time Spiral.
Time Stretch.
15. Mystical Tutor.
16.Warp World.
17.Scrambleverse.
18.Wild Evocation.
19.Grip of Chaos.
20.Knowledge Pool.
Epic Experiment.
Invoke the Firemind.
Firemind's Foresight.
Hive Mind.
25.In the Eye of Chaos.
That is a 4th of the Deck built for you, you figure out the rest. :)
(Don't forget Green. There is Maelstrom Wanderer and Praetor's Counsel to consider. Oh and Confusion in the Ranks)
I will be coming back to comment on this card as I find more cards for this deck, and possibly take out anything Order and Consistency related. :D Quick Math: with 40% lands, 400 cards, you need to run 160 Lands. Very good news for Boundless Realms :D
I like the idea, because with Enter the Infinite, it becomes, "I draw my entire deck! Ha!" With Omniscience, it becomes "I play my entire deck! Now what?" With Tamiyo's Emblem, it becomes "I play my entire deck! And again. And again. And I can keep playing this spell an infinite number of times until you lose! And I have counter spells in my hand in case you want to even try to do anything! Responses?"
2: This
Thats been decided up to this point.
3: Laboratory Maniac
4: Think Twice (Flashback)
Instant Win
Maybe I'm missing something, but did you read what Battle of Wits does?
I really can't take you seriously, saying that the only way to make this card fun is to use it with Battle of Wits. It makes no sense.
yer an idiot dude. you have the most condescending, high-and-mighty sounding post i've ever read on here and you don't even get what battle of wits is about, which is ironic, considering the name of the card. yer not good at doing forums.
seriously, reading your entire post made my brain hurt. it's so packed with true blue ignorance that it's nearly hilarious, but not really funny because you're being dead serious.
this is a great card. possibility storm is what you should have thought of. then a 2 cmc sorcery of any color could turn into this and yer not even obligated to cast it if you don't want to.
Melvin is just shocked with how clueless darthparallax's brain is when you don't know what battle of wits does.
Johnny doesn't feel stupid anymore after reading your post.
Spike knows what it can really do.
Timmy is you.
Vorthos is content.
And then you cast Spelltwine afterwards, and you've pretty much won.
Let's be honest, anyone who rates this card low is clearly a moron who just likes to play power magic and is incapable of complex thought processes. It's quite fitting that this card is too difficult for them, actually.
I find it clunky, even disruptive. I like it when Blue plays in an elegant swiftness.
This is too comboeque for my taste
Color: Blue spell (unguilded)
Location: Unimportant
Action: Show a close up of a face that has just received all the knowledge in the universe. The expression is that of seeing the immensity of the infinite that both awes and terrifies. It is agony and ecstasy at the same time. At the edges, the face is beginning to fracture into geometric pieces, and the further out from the face that we go, the pieces are turning into all manner of birds, beasts and creatures that wriggle and crawl, flowers, trees, vines and symbolic ***. The pieces are spaced more and more apart the further they are from the face as if the face is exploding apart revealing the infinite void.
Focus: The fracturing face.
Mood: Identity dissolved in infinite knowledge.
Notes: Terese, this is a powerful card that lets you draw your entire deck... you can cast anything! Please make it appropriately impressive and dramatic!
Thought that was interesting.
Okay, so I don't see this in any of the comments: Hive Mind. Done. You win. Doesn't matter how many people you are playing against, as long as you are the only one with sufficient safeguards against burnout, and you have no teammates to lose the game for you (the no. 1 killer of burn decks).
All the safeguard would take is having a self-bounce card like Progenitus somewhere in your deck, and something to keep people from making you draw out.
If you have friendlies with you, I suppose you can use Bazaar Trader to give them something like Nivmagus Elemental so they don't have to resolve their copy of the spell, though it would be hard to get both out without first having used Enter the Infinite
Winning games off of me talking to myself on forums yet?
Also, Browbeat.
If you're going for Modern-legal or already have plentiful blue mana in your pool (which I figure is likely as an infinite-mana combo is how Enter the Infinite was likely cast in the first place), Time Warp can sub in for Final Fortune; Elixir of Immortality can fill the same role as Feldon's Cane, although it's strictly more expensive (and yes, Feldon's Cane IS Modern-legal, it was timeshifted). There are several ways of discarding your hand, but the only one cheaper than One With Nothing is not even remotely Modern-legal.
Okay, any card with an effect that will win you the game is at least decent. However, cheating out instants and sorceries is harder than most permanents. Counterlashing an opponent's sorcery could be effective and relatively cheap, but what if they don't cast one?
I can think of some janky three card combos (Galvanoth + Brainstorm?) But that is frankly too many pieces to ever rely on, so I will say what I generally say for these high CC "I win" cards. Jhoira of the Ghitu.
My deck was in sleeves.
I needed to have some assistance to hold my entire hand.
Also, I can see a U/B deck being made with some number of infinite combos (enter the infinite combos, ha) and this, Omniscience, and Necropotence.
I draw my whole deck, I play my whole deck, and if I don't win this turn, that's fine, I have my whole library as a hand until I win.
4/5 Stars
I think that's the counter to Omnishow I've been waiting for. :) (Teeg is also fine..)
That out of the way; the flavor of this is pretty awesome. It's like a blue mage pours all of his will into finding Nirvana, finds it; and his mind nearly explodes; but he's got enough control over things to not go insane. It has such a Obi-Wan nature to it too; Niv Mizzet beaconing you to remember this one-line lesson; and boom; the world is yours.
"Don't just give a point of damage - give ALL THE DAMAGE."
- Niv-Mizzet
This really should have had some drawback. The mana cost isn't enough to be prohibitive similar to Omniscience. At least Dream Halls affects all players and you have to discard to use it - i.e. requires some smarts and deck planning to use it well. With this card it's 8UUUU: You win the game
4/5