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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Pauper Duel Commander | Legal |
| Pauper EDH | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Ember Shot
Instant
Ember Shot deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Draw a card.
legendofa on Is WotC Being Inconsistent in …
2 months ago
I personally see a distinction between downsides and restrictions. Both are ways to limit the utility of the card, but downsides give you an outsized effect for the cost, but it actively hinders or harms you, while a restriction limits when or how the effect can be used.
Like, Volcanic Spite doesn't have a downside because it can't hurt players. That's a restriction. Similarly, the "activate only one per turn" clause isn't a downside because it doesn't actively hurt you or prevent you from playing. It simply limits how it can be used.
A couple of downside examples would be Steel Golem, which prevents you from casting any more creature spells, or Demonic Pact, which gives you lots of resources, but will cause you to straight up lose eventually.
Basically, if you would want to Donate it to an opponent, it's a downside. If you want to keep it but use it more often, it's a restriction. If it simply costs too much (Ember Shot) it's inefficient.
nayrash5 on None
8 years ago
Break Open, if it worked on your guys it would have some playability, as in it turns a 2/2 into something much more terrifying.
Ember Shot I get they were trying to be cautious with red card draw, but really, seven mana, really.
Frazzle Cancel is playable, but not spectacular. Granted this is more splashable, but this also costs a mana more and might not even do anything against certain opponents.
Sky Swallower I know 'Dies to Removal' is a really lame argument, but when this gets tubed you just lose with this almost more than any other creature, no thanks.
Numai Outcast A four mana 1/1 that might get larger in combat, and at that cost it might as well not even have 'Regenerate.'
Apocalypse Chime Part of the 'Hose the Set' cards, this one is double trash because there are so few playable cards in Homeland, and the most famous one is Merchant Scroll, which isn't even something this stops.
Celestial Prism This was probably OK back when it was new, but in this day and age there are so many better colour-fixers.
Juju Bubble Gaining life is generally not great unless it's in a huge burst, and unless you have a whole tonne of mana you aren't doing anything with this will gain maybe 3-4 life. To make matters worse, it has two death conditions so it probably won't even be out for very long.
Cathedral of Serra Not necessarily bad per se, but banding is such a confusing ability, and lets legends band with other legends, because you will of course have a bunch of those in play. There is one for each colour of legends, which is both better and worse than having just one colour have this ability.
I have a whole deck of these really lame cards, which is where I got this list from. :P B45T 3DH 3V4R!
clayperce on Best. Advent Calendar. Evar.
8 years ago
December 7th
Well the packs got out of order and we didn't notice, so we opened a Judgment pack instead (guess we have to wait another day to see if we get that foil Entomb
!) ... oops!
But the good news is Pick 1 is, for the first time, our rare!
As expected from the block that introduced graveyard shenanigans to the world, the pack also had bunch of fun graveyard-matters cards: Grip of Amnesia; Rats' Feast; Funeral Pyre; and Exoskeletal Armor.
We were kind of bummed we didn't get any of the Incarnations (e.g., Genesis and Glory at rare), but we did get a bunch of interesting cards:
- Mirror Wall -- A wall that can attack?
- Phantom Centaur -- I knew of the tough-to-kill */0 Phantoms but had never seem one
- Keep Watch -- Would have been great against the Squirrel swarms of the block
- Ember Shot and Sudden Strength -- Staples like Lightning Bolt and Giant Growth + draw a card was a neat concept ... too bad it was insanely overcosted
And we also have a new pick for best flavor text of the calendar (so far!): Cabal Trainee
Tomorrow: Odyssey. For real this time! :-)
Serendipitous_Hummingbird on Potential Stoneforge Mystic Unbanning?
8 years ago
Hey. Stop giving Ember Shot so much shit. Do you know how rare cantrips are in red?
CheeseBro on Potential Stoneforge Mystic Unbanning?
8 years ago
Comparing Stoneforge Mystic with Steelshaper's Gift is like comparing Lightning Bolt with Ember Shot.
PS: Quote Wall that pls fluffybunnypants
