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Bandage

Multiverse ID: 5111

Bandage

Comments (5)

A3Kitsune
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
If only it had a decent base effect to go with the draw.
Ameisenmeister
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Don't forget To Arms!.
Paolino
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Drawing a card doesn't make a card nice if it's so bad. Just don't put this card into your deck and you will draw the next card instead of this!
Wulfsten
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's essentially a combat trick that replaces itself. It can definitely be useful.

More than that though, I love this card because it represents the kind of Magic cards we used to see, which would have real emotional content and a sense of pathos, even with relatively trivial cards like this one. This card has a personality, it has it's own "feel".

Nowadays, there are usually two types of cards: cards that try to be really "cool" or "awesome", and cards which are almost nakedly attempting to perform some function in the tournament metagame. I miss cards like this one. It wasn't developed because it had a badass effect or because white needed cantrips. It was just a nice idea and an intimate moment that they reflected in the card.