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Memory Crystal

Multiverse ID: 6167

Memory Crystal

Comments (15)

Ombrenuit
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (6 votes)
Sprout swarm anyone? This card is nuts in combo.
Ace8792
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (5 votes)
2 of these + a Sprout swarm and a Doubling Season and you after playing the Sprout Swarm's cost you will be able to tap the 2 saporlings because of double seasoing and play it again for free this combo is never ending the only down side is that all of the saporlings are tapped but still who wounld't want 12 trillion saporlings.
Aun
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (3 votes)
pretty nice, but too old to be used in constructed/eternal.
EvilCleavage
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (8 votes)
And then I play Wrath of God.
Sidecutte
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (3 votes)
EvilCleavage:

Sprout swarm is an instant, WOG isn't much of use there
CrazyLou
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Ace8792:

And that is when you toss down a 24,000,000,000,004/24,000,000,000,004 Predator Dragon.
Snafinturtle
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (2 votes)
@CrazyLou: that's an awesomely arbitrary number....

Edit: Nevermind... not so arbitrary... that was 24 trillion... +4 for the dragon's original p/t

I personally like getting two of these to be able to machine gun Clockspinning.
That or Searing Touch since it basically gives you Koth's emblem.
and fianlly... the scariest thought:
one of these with Whim of Volrath allows you to essentially control your opponent's mana base, or make them produce oddly colored tokens... e.g. turquoise saprolings.
coyotemoon722
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Card is amazing with Mind Games, Capsize, and Evangelize, or any of the other more powerful buyback cards.
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Whispers of the Muse becomes just stupid if you get two of these out. Like an Evermind that can be spliced onto thin air.

Also, Clockspinning. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Goatllama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Usually this sort of card includes a 'this can't reduce the cost to less than 1.' Glad to see they skipped that for this one.
Burnwright
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The combo Ace came up with plus Thromok the Insatiable. Yeah, I'm going to spare everyone the ridiculous p/t it would have. Remember to eat your veggies kids!
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Question 1: Which creature's P/T are equal to the P/T of sacrificed creatures?

Question 2: What is the biggest number you have a name for? Sacrifice that many Saprolings to Thromok the Insatiable.

Question 3: When we add {U} and make this deck Riku colored, how many Progenitor Mimics copying Thromok can we get?

Question 4: When we sacrifice all those Thromoks to the Mystery Creature that answers Question #1, how many people punch us in the testcles and stop playing with us?

Question 4: Where does Knowledge Pool fit into all this? (I feel like the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" theme really should be playing at this point XD Johnnies: Admit your secret Dark Inner Sin: We like to play Yu-Gi-Oh!, Anime-style. :P SCREW THE RULES I HAVE CARDS! :D MY NAME IS JOEY WHEELER AND I WILL DEFY MATH AND LOGIC AND FLIP COINS UNTIL I WIN! BROOKLYN RAGE! :D EGYPTIAN GOD CARDS, I COMMAND TO YOU TO DO A BUNCH OF STUFF THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! :D HEART OF THE CARDS, SET MY STATISTICS BOOK ON FIRE! O.O)
The_Murderauder
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Perhaps this isn't the best page to be having this conversation, but I just can't resist.

Why are you people obsessed with devour? Why do you feel the need to consolidate your billions of points of power into a single creature? You're actually making a worse play by doing so. Easier to block, easier to kill, steal, lock, etc. Sure, devour 2+ nets you a larger total P/T, but that doesn't even matter when you're dealing with infinite combos.

I'm just saying, there's more targeted removal in the game than there is mass removal. And much more instant-speed targeted removal. The only one of these suggestions that had any amount of merit was Predator Dragon, and only because it has haste. And frankly, there are better options in that department too.


As for Memory Crystal, I like it! It's interesting to me that they even printed this at all. There are only 30 cards in the entire game that it even interacts with (not counting Blast From the Past). But it's great at what it does.
NARFNra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@The_Murderauder

Because it's fun?