This has actually multiple uses: *as a single target Brand-like card against control decks (although that's not the best use) *to prevent your destroyed permanents to hit the graveyard (and possibly fetch them later with other effects) *to get your permanents when you exchanged control with your opponent (e.g. Avarice Totem)
mtmills
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Only cards on the battlefield are permanents. Exiled cards are just cards.
ScissorsLizard
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(5 votes)
The Brand-like ability doesn't work any more, as of the 2010 rules changes. Now, a creatures owner is whoever it first comes into play for.
Omenchild
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Thats not true; thats only for tokens.
McThor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Does anyone know what the flavor text is a reference to?
Kryptnyt
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Might be interesting anti-removal in a rebel or mercenary deck.
Ladnarud
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Very interesting card, my inner Johnny is mesmerized by it. Would be really cool if it had Flash.
I have a deck that uses Energy Field and lots of the transmute mechanic, in which case the stylus is very handy... it's also an excellent sideboard against any control or destruction deck.
For the situational purposes that it fulfills, this card is perfect, so i'm giving it a 5/5.
NobleWhiteGangsta
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(4 votes)
I think the flavor text is making reference to the "TREE OF TAILS" artifact land. It chimed with me nearly immediatly. I guess the Tel-Jilad recorded thier lineage on the trees but the bottom end of the tree must have been worn off due to other creatures and construct that rubbed or scratched away at the stories at the bottom. You could kind of think like the Junglebook when Baloo the bear rubbed his back on the tree to scratch his back. Perhaps not every creature that lives on Mirrodin would have just fur on thier backs... perhaps razor blades or just tough/sharp skin.
What's really weird is that the Image on the game card almost resembles a tattooing process than a story scibing on a tree....
Dynamic_Reversist
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
The Tree of Tales, Tel-Jilad records the history of the elves; the problem however, is that they are not natives of Mirrodin. The bottom is worn smooth because the Viridian Elves would regularly purge their memories, preventing them from remembering their otherworldly origin. The trolls have erased the origin of the elves and other races of the Tangle to keep them safe; to know the truth would put Memnarch's plan in jeopardy.
It's not a very good combo, but Stylus the 'moeba to the bottom and Door it back into the grave, and it pops back into play along with a Zombie token. Then do it again.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Interesting flavor note: This works quite well against Memnarch.
Just return your Neurok Invisimancer to the bottom (top) of your library and swing for 10 each turn.
Dangerous but fun.
printsmorgan
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It is great when your opponent is borrowing one of your decks. I use it to get my only Coat of Arms from deck to deck.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A modern Despotic Scepter. The best thing about it is that in Green you can save a creature 1-of from an exile spell, then go and grab it again with Green Sun's Zenith. The same trick can be used to reuse it's ETB effect.
In G/U you can tutor this with Trinket Mage and use your plethora of utility creatures over and over. -Trygon will survive all but split-second removal. -Coiling Oracle will help you card-advantage to victory. -Nulltread can allow you to repeat Oracle as well, while being easy to tutor and huge enough to eat goyfs. -Loaming Shaman for repeat-grave-hate.
Using it with something like Yavimaya Dryad can give you tutorable mana-fixing + card advantage. The Trinket mage is also useful for finding the plethora of broken 1 and 0 cost artifacts.
Nucleon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The goofiest use I can think of for this would be in Goblin Charbelcher decks. You get out your single Mountain and accelerators, then shove your single land down on the deck's bottom to maximize possible damage. Whether Belcher decks can afford the extra single mana that isn't devoted to getting Belcher running, I doubt it, but you have to admit it would be a memorable game for everyone involved.
It's not completely useless, but if this thing ever winds up in any deck that isn't a Richard Garfield, Ph.D. EDH deck being designed by a smartass, I will be amazed.
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*as a single target Brand-like card against control decks (although that's not the best use)
*to prevent your destroyed permanents to hit the graveyard (and possibly fetch them later with other effects)
*to get your permanents when you exchanged control with your opponent (e.g. Avarice Totem)
I have a deck that uses Energy Field and lots of the transmute mechanic, in which case the stylus is very handy... it's also an excellent sideboard against any control or destruction deck.
For the situational purposes that it fulfills, this card is perfect, so i'm giving it a 5/5.
What's really weird is that the Image on the game card almost resembles a tattooing process than a story scibing on a tree....
The full combo would be Tel-Jilad Stylus, Cellar Door, and Narcomoeba.
It's not a very good combo, but Stylus the 'moeba to the bottom and Door it back into the grave, and it pops back into play along with a Zombie token. Then do it again.
Just return your Neurok Invisimancer to the bottom (top) of your library and swing for 10 each turn.
Dangerous but fun.
In G/U you can tutor this with Trinket Mage and use your plethora of utility creatures over and over.
-Trygon will survive all but split-second removal.
-Coiling Oracle will help you card-advantage to victory.
-Nulltread can allow you to repeat Oracle as well, while being easy to tutor and huge enough to eat goyfs.
-Loaming Shaman for repeat-grave-hate.
Using it with something like Yavimaya Dryad can give you tutorable mana-fixing + card advantage. The Trinket mage is also useful for finding the plethora of broken 1 and 0 cost artifacts.
It's not completely useless, but if this thing ever winds up in any deck that isn't a Richard Garfield, Ph.D. EDH deck being designed by a smartass, I will be amazed.