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Card of the Day 2022-07-14 >>

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Investigate {U}
Instant (C)
Investigate.
Replicate {U}

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Being an instant makes Investigate way too good. Being able to easily pour all of your leftover mana into this spell when it is unneeded and then again when you actually need to draw cards leads to problems. As a sorcery, it might still be too good at creating artifact tokens but that's a different story entirely. Too many effects at instant speed significantly decrease game options and skill level as no decision needs to be made because you can wait until there isn't an actual decision being made, just spending leftover mana.

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Card of the Day 2022-07-15 >>

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Smash the Gate {1}{R}
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact.
 

Charge the Walls {2}{R}
Sorcery (C)
Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

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As a sorcery, it might still be too good at creating artifact tokens but that's a different story entirely.

I feel, that's more an issue with artifact counting effects/sacrifice outlets. The other points are taken under advisement. I wondered, whether instant was pushing it too much.



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Card of the Day 2022-07-16 >>
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Interplanar Gate
Land — Gate (U)
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Roll the planar die. A roll counts as a roll instead. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

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Card of the Day 2022-07-17 >>

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Venser, Defender of Sea Gate {3}{W}{U}
Legendary Planeswalker — Venser (M)
Flash
When ~ enters the battlefield, exile target spell or creature.
[+1]: Phase out target creature until the beginning of your next turn.
[-X]: You may cast a card with mana value X or less that has been exiled by a Venser you control without paying its mana cost.
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Card of the Day 2022-07-18 >>

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Undercity Affliction {2}{B}{B}
Sorcery (U)
Bane (When you cast this, choose "land", "creature" or "neither". Each player may reveal a chosen card from hand.)
Target player sacrifices a creature. Then each player that did not reveal a bane card sacrifices a creature.

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Card of the Day 2022-07-19 >>

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Otak, Tin Street Shopkeep {2}{R}
Legendary Creature — Human Merchant (R)
Haste
{T}: Target opponent gains control of a permanent you control of your choice. Draw a card.
2/2

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Card of the Day 2022-07-20 >>

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Cephalid Cartographer {3}U}
Creature — Cephalid Citizen (U)
If you would draw a card, you may reveal the top two cards of your library instead. If you do, put each land card revealed this way into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
2/3

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Card of the Day 2022-07-21 >>

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Angry Crowd {2}{R/G}{R/G}
Creature — Human (R)
Haste, trample
When ~ enters the battlefield, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
After a while the anger subsided and most people went on to forgive and forget. Most of them, but never all of them.
2/2

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Card of the Day 2022-07-22 >>

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Suburban Daggertooth {1}{G}
Creature — Dinosaur (C)
Vigilance
When ~ enters the battlefield or dies, half-proliferate. (Choose up to half of permanents and/or players with counters on them, rounded down, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
2/1

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Palebark Elder {3}{G}{G}
Creature — Treefolk (R)
Cumulative upkeep {G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Trample
When ~ dies, if it has two or more age counters on it, return it to the battlefield.
4/5

Palebark seems like an uncommon to me unless it's supposed to be an Ice Age card. It's just too objectively weak for rare. I suppose it "combos" with Pearlgate below? EDIT: NM, I thought it returned to hand.

Ruby Focus {R}
Tribal Artifact — Wizard (U)
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
When ~ enters the battlefield, add {R}. You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
{T}, Sacrifice ~: Add {R}.
{T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice ~: Add {R}. When you do, draw a card.

Ruby Focus looks rare to me. There's a lot going on here. And the ability to chain them via the free r pushes it firmly up to rare.

Pearlgate Keeper {3}{G}{W}
Creature — Angel Beast (U)
Flying
Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain life equal to its power.
4/4

Pearlgate is definitely rare. Or I'm behind the times which is entirely possible. The power level in limited would be astronomical unless the whole set was astronomically powerful as well.

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Card of the Day 2022-07-23 >>

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Voldaren Estate Patrol {3}{R}
Creature — Vampire Warrior (U)
Whenever ~ deals damage to one or more creatures, create a Blood token.
At the beginning of each end step, if you sacrificed three or more Blood this turn, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
3/3

2022-08-01 EDIT: fixed rarity symbol in text card

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Card of the Day 2022-07-24 >>

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City's Valiant {1}{W}{W}
Creature — Human Soldier (R)
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Other Humans you control have exalted.
{1}, Tap two untapped Humans you control: Tap target creature.
3/2

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Card of the Day 2022-07-25 >>

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Painworks of Urabrask {2}{R/P}{R/P}
Artifact (U)
{1}{R/P}{R/P}, {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

2022-08-01 EDIT: fixed rarity symbol in text card

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Card of the Day 2022-07-26 >>

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Greedy Miners {1}{B}{R}
Creature – Dwarf Worker (U)
Whenever ~ or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a mine counter on a land you control. If you do, create a Gold token. If you can't place a mine counter, transform ~.
2/4

Mine Dwellers
{B/R} Creature – Dwarf Horror (U)
Menace, deathtouch, trample
~gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
They have dug too deep for their treasures. Now they've awoken something dark and furious in their hearts.
2/4

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Whoa, twist - the Balrog was them the whole time! I dig (heh) this - it's a little something different for BR.

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Card of the Day 2022-07-27 >>

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Goblin Alchemist {R}
Creature — Goblin Wizard (U)
{R}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
He doesn't quite know yet how to turn lead into gold. Turning a construct into spare parts works quite well though.
1/1

2022-08-01 EDIT: fixed rarity symbol in text card

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Card of the Day 2022-07-28 >>

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Clockworking {3}{U}
Sorcery (C)
Draw two cards. You may cast a card named Clockworking from your hand without paying its mana cost.

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Card of the Day 2022-07-29 >>

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Assemble Machinery {W/U}{W/U}
Tribal Sorcery — Assembly-Worker (R)
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it and put it on top of your library.
You may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, draw a card.
You may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, you may put an artifact card with mana value 4 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.

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Card of the Day 2022-07-30 >>

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Leave a Trace {2}{W}
Sorcery (U)
Destroy all enchantments target player controls. They investigate.
The spellwork has been undone masterfullly. Almost no indication of what or who has caused it. Almost.

2022-08-01 EDIT: fixed rarity symbol in text card

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Card of the Day 2022-07-31 >>

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Gearwork Restoration {2}{U}{R}{W}
Sorcery (U)
Return up to one target artifact creature card and up to one target noncreature artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Card of the Day 2022-08-01 >>

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Preparation {1}{U}
Instant (C)
Scry 3, then draw a card.
With the channeler's cooperation Takeno finally had the means to predict the unpredictable movements of the kami. It was up to him to use this information.

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Card of the Day 2022-08-02 >>

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Tranquil Decomposition {2}{G}
Sorcery (U)
Search target player's library for up to three cards with scavenge and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles their library.

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Card of the Day 2022-08-03 >>

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Fade Away {1}{W}
Enchantment (U)
When ~ enters the battlefield, exile target tapped creature until ~ leaves the battlefield.
The griffin laid its head to rest in our world and awoke in the dream world. Its physical presence dispersing into nothingness as its dream-self awoke.

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Makes sense to have that variant. Great flavor. Could even cost W with Seal Away being a thing.