Unblockability for {U} is amazing on its own, scry is just over kill on a common. A COMMON!!!
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(5 votes)
I read it.
Then I read it again.
And a third time, just to make sure.
Yes, that's what it says.
And, no, the set symbol is not silver.
This card is a total beast, perhaps the best common in the entire set.
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(5 votes)
I have a feeling we're going to be seeing quite a few of these pinned on Spellheart Chimeras in standard.
Avensai
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(9 votes)
Is it the best common in the set? Maybe. Do I desperately, desperately want to slap it on a Flamespeaker Adept, most likely in limited? Yes. Very yes.
ShatterPalm
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Unblockability AND deck sifting on a one drop enchantment? Sign me the hell up, these are going right in my Simic deck
Cyberium
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Nice match with Infect creatures.
MadMethod
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This is wonderful.
Artful dodge is still good, but only if you want to be casting multiple sorceries for one card slot. And it's a reference of Charles Dickens.
mpitcock
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Whoa, this is a great aura. Unblockability, and Scrying on the same one mana enchantment, at COMMON!! Best common of the set. When this was spoiled on Beta I thought something else might follow the scry text, but nope we get this monstrosity. Most likely will see play in an aura deck. This might make Bant Auras a thing again.
Abl
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
"Geist is rotating out! Quick, we need to save an archetype!" And suddenly Bant enchantments became viable in standard again.
Cloudchaser.Kestrel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Wow, just wow.
Twilly05
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I dunno how this has anything less the 5 stars. Sure you can get 2 for 1'd with all auras, but I'd hella take the risk for just a single mana.
Lord_Skoonie
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Combos insanely well with Scroll Thief. Combos insanely well with everything, to be honest!
DarthParallax
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Commons that are good enough to immediately be genuinely interesting in EDH are sort of hard to print.
Nice job, Wizards. :)
Purplerooster
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Still vulnerable to 2-4-1s, but this will probably get your biggest creature in at least once and let you eliminate and excess land or dead card for the future.
Flyheight
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I know it's already been said, but Flamespeaker Adept. And yeah. It's boss all on its own.
DoragonShinzui
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Obscene amount of power for just . Especially in a set focused on enchantments and targeting your creatures.
Cabbieboy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Does this make Master of Cruelties some kind of sick joke to play around with?
PeabodyET
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Okay, I can agree that this is a playable aura, but I think you guys are a little over the top here. It doesn't give card advantage, it could lead to you getting 2-for-1'd, and it doesn't make your creature harder to kill outside of combat.
Best common in the set? Not by a long shot. Read the Bones is the best, and Boon of Erebos and Titan's Strength are better. Prescient Chimera, Voyage's End, and arguably Vaporkin are better in blue.
This card will save Bant enchantments? Hardly. This card doesn't replace GoST. How does an aura that doesn't protect or pump your dude, nor give card advantage, replace a 3 drop with hexproof that swung for 6 damage in the air?
Y'all are of your rockers.
Just all-around good and powerful, considering how many things have amazing effects based on not being blocked or dealing damage to a player (not to mention just big things that do a lot of damage).
This card straight up wins games... How the hell did U &R beat G & W in the undercosted aura department?
inanimateblob
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card single-handedly screwed over my chances at prerelease.
ColdCutz
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
God what have they done..
MrShinyObject
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
A do-it-yourself Thassa,.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'd pay {U} for that effect for a single turn, honestly. You're trading off the second usage from Artful Dodge for scry, which isn't necessarily bad.
BryceCarmony
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great card, a give fly enchant for 1 blue is fair, unblockable is even sweeter , and the scry 1 on attack? just icing the cake. 4.5 / 5 and it's Common.
Raexs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So freaking good. {U} to give a guy permanent unblockability is good enough, but then throw that scry into the mix and this thing is just bonkers-good. And what's that? It's a common?!
Luther_Zenn
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
This card has decent synergy with Explorer's Scope for pauper decks.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oho, now my ninjas are made of water!...ey stuff...
Odee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dropping this on a scroll thief might take some hate away from my guttersnipes
I guess the wording still doesn't matters because of cards like Curtain of Light. One would've thought the following: Unbloackable means is can't be blocked by creatures. This means you just can't. Period. Still not sure why they changed it.
"This made me cry. Especially because I generally don't like playing blue." --inanimateblob
Oh, nonono. You got it something wrong there. This card makes you scry.
wrathofdave430
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is it bad that I built an entire deck around this card and Flamespeaker Adept? Along with Thassa, God of the Sea, Titan's Strength, Magma Jet and a lot of the other scry cards in this set. I managed to pull of a unblockable turn four win in sealed... I wonder if this will see any standard constructed play at the pro tour?
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This made me cry. Especially because I generally don't like playing blue. EDIT: This card is so absolutely beautiful it made me change my W/B enchantment deck into a W/U enchantment deck almost entirely to put this in.
SO powerful! SO many combos! this card got me a 15/15 unblockable creature in the release...
/.
mattrva77
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The ability to scry every turn in the right deck is not to be over-stated. Evasion is almost gravy with this card -- DELICIOUS gravy. Nothing beats playing this on a Polukranos, World Eater.
CapmCrunch
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Another card that screams how little Wizards values interaction in recent design. I keep praying for a draw first format that has matches that last past turn seven, but as long as they keep printing jank like this and Madcap Skills with no good common removal that day will never come. Powerful and depressing.
This card is awesome. I use it a casual control deck and my main target is Stealer of Secrets. Not only do I get a extra card draw every turn, I also get to ship the bad cards to the bottom. That being said I have a question about the scry mechanic. Does scry stack, or does it happen twice in a row? For example, if I enchant thief with two copies of this card, do I scry 2, or do I scry 1 twice?
myztikrice
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@JailedWanderer You scry 1 twice
blahpers
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cheap aura, powerful ability, scry is just icing. Amazing card in Limited--play with Staunch-Hearted Warrior or, better yet, Centaur Battlemaster. The look on your opponent's face when you drop a battlemaster, Aqueous Form, and Messenger's Speed in the same turn is priceless.
Edit: Since Inspired became a thing, this thing went up to 6/5. Aqueous form on King Macar? Bahahahaha!
WolfWhoWalks
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How is this rated lower than Cloak of Mists? This is strictly better than that card times a million...
Comments (52)
Then I read it again.
And a third time, just to make sure.
Yes, that's what it says.
And, no, the set symbol is not silver.
This card is a total beast, perhaps the best common in the entire set.
Artful dodge is still good, but only if you want to be casting multiple sorceries for one card slot. And it's a reference of Charles Dickens.
And suddenly Bant enchantments became viable in standard again.
Nice job, Wizards. :)
And yeah. It's boss all on its own.
Best common in the set? Not by a long shot. Read the Bones is the best, and Boon of Erebos and Titan's Strength are better. Prescient Chimera, Voyage's End, and arguably Vaporkin are better in blue.
This card will save Bant enchantments? Hardly. This card doesn't replace GoST. How does an aura that doesn't protect or pump your dude, nor give card advantage, replace a 3 drop with hexproof that swung for 6 damage in the air?
Y'all are of your rockers.
Some things that come to mind:
• Any cipher card
• Any ninja
• Cephalid Constable
• Markov Blademaster
• Blightsteel Colossus
• Phage the Untouchable
• Augury Adept
• Arcbound Slith
• Balefire Dragon
• Ashling, the Extinguisher
• Blinding Angel
• Blizzard Specter
• Crosis, the Purger
• Darigaaz, the Igniter
• Daxos of Meletis
• Ebonblade Reaper
• Hellcarver Demon
• Living Hive
Still not sure why they changed it.
I want to put this in a heavy enchantment based deck with Mesa Enchantress, Thassa, God of the Sea, Sphere of Safety, Curiosity, Oblivion Ring, Ethereal Armor, Story Circle and maybe Privileged Position (or Asceticism) if I wanted to be a dick.
Oh, nonono. You got it something wrong there. This card makes you scry.
EDIT:
This card is so absolutely beautiful it made me change my W/B enchantment deck into a W/U enchantment deck almost entirely to put this in.
SO powerful! SO many combos! this card got me a 15/15 unblockable creature in the release...
I use this in a one cmc blue green aggro deck utalyzing Cloudfin Raptor, Young Wolf, and Rapid Hybridization. This combined with Curiosity is amazing with how much they compliment each other.
You scry 1 twice
Edit: Since Inspired became a thing, this thing went up to 6/5. Aqueous form on King Macar? Bahahahaha!