This isn't as much a removal spell as it is a way to save one of your own creatures that you've pumped up with about 20 Auras. I think it's fine for what it does.
RapSnitchKnishes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's pretty counter-productive to be honest. I know you can target your own creatures, but in blue? The color of hexproof and counterspells? Why would you need this?
Continue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
4/5 simply because we finally have a card named Hubris.
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Eh. The card doesn't quite live up to its name. I wouldn't have called out Wizard for their hubris had they made this cost only.
It's not strictly better than Unsummon. Sure, it'll send the enchantment creatures along with the bestowed creatures to their opponent's hand, and it can also be used on your creatures to prevent card loss. But it also won't be able to 2-for-1 your opponents' regularly enchanted creatures.
DaLucaray
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Because you just can't have a Greek myth without Hubris.
And sexism.
SpaceMagic
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Please. The women of Theros have kicked major @$$ all block long. It's hardly sexist that one of them get sent back to its owner. Wait...
On a more serious note, I would have hoped for a more Achilles-ish effect. Speaking of which, where are Achilles and Atlantis? I get that they might come in again if we ever revisit Theros, but Wizards has stated that returning to top-down worlds is difficult because of the limited nature of topical tropes. Is this only an example of hubris? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
anotherfan321
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Funny. This normally would be worse than an unsummon, but with Bestow, it can pack a wallop of tempo.
Cyberium
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Judging from all the flavor texts, Phenax is a major troll.
HuntingDrake
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Sweet! My Terrible Cube needed a bounce spell that didn't unduly punish fun Auras, and Word of Undoing was not up to the task!
Only printed for all the Zur commander decks out there which will now be cheating in every 3 cost WUB creature from this block.
I may have actually cried when i saw this spoiled (I run a Zur commander deck).
Twinsuit
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
VERY powerful in limited. Great!
elcap
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
An added benefit if you are running offensive enchantments like Soul Tithe, or Oppressive Rays, or Banishing Light, or Arrest is that when the time comes that your opponent tries to destroy your enchantments that are holding his creatures back he will be out of luck. For example your opponent has a creature down and you have Arrest on it and your opponent casts a destroy or exile enchantment card on your Arrest hoping to get use of his or her creature back. In response you cast Hubris and send both your Arrest and the creature your opponent wanted to use back to their owner's hands and you get to use your Arrest again. Your opponent will be really likely to be running enchantment removal in standard so this is a pretty likely scenario.
Drewskithelegend
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
They got a third of Orzhov charm in a more playable color. Not too bad if you are playing heroic. This actually evens out if you have a heroic that draws or auras with ETB draw triggers. Playable but probably not going to see any play in constructed. 3/5.
Tiggurix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5 because it's called Hubris (though I agree that it could have cost only ).
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm confused as to how this depicts hubris. Someone fill me in please :(
aaglo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So you're casting Silence the Believers on my bestowed battleship? Well, that ain't gonna happen right now. 4/5
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I wouldn't have called out Wizard for their hubris had they made this cost
It's not strictly better than Unsummon.
Sure, it'll send the enchantment creatures along with the bestowed creatures to their opponent's hand, and it can also be used on your creatures to prevent card loss.
But it also won't be able to 2-for-1 your opponents' regularly enchanted creatures.
And sexism.
On a more serious note, I would have hoped for a more Achilles-ish effect. Speaking of which, where are Achilles and Atlantis? I get that they might come in again if we ever revisit Theros, but Wizards has stated that returning to top-down worlds is difficult because of the limited nature of topical tropes. Is this only an example of hubris? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I may have actually cried when i saw this spoiled (I run a Zur commander deck).