Kiora's Dismissal

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Kiora's Dismissal

Instant

Strive - Kiora's Dismissal costs U more to cast for each target beyond the first.

Return any number of target enchantments to their owners' hands.

Monomanamaniac on How does orvar work with …

5 months ago

If I have Orvar, the All-Form and Control Magic and I use Kiora's Dismissal on it, will I get the trigger to copy it

Rhadamanthus on I need some clarity... strive, …

1 year ago

Just to make sure we're on the same page: yes, Hinata, Dawn-Crowned works great with Strive spells as long as they have a generic component in the cost. It can't reduce the cost of Kiora's Dismissal or Blinding Flare, but will work fine with something like Hour of Need, Phalanx Formation, etc.

CamraMaan on I need some clarity... strive, …

1 year ago

At the heart of my issue/question is whether strive costs are included in a spell's casting cost. I know kicker costs are additional, and therefore not included. And as I read the definition, any additional costs will have the word "additional" in the text. But strive doesn't say additional. On the Gather site, the current definition of strive is "This spell costs X more to cast for each target beyond the first" and clearly does not say "additional", or an example card like Kiora's Dismissal. By the wording of strive, it would be easy to assume the spell's casting cost is affected by these "additional" costs, which matters if something is checking the spell's cost. I understand strive is thought to operate as an additional cost like kicker, but...... it doesn't say additional cost, which is part of the definition of an additional cost. And it's obviously not an alternative cost, so..... help?

Thanks in advance! :)

Tyrant-Thanatos on Storm Scale: Theros and Theros: …

3 years ago

Agree with most of the ratings. Disagree with some of the rationales. Strive in particular, which was largely disliked (imo) because the cards were awful. The mechanic would have been fine if they had just designed the cards with reasonable costs instead of dramatically overestimating the value of additional targets. I mean it's basically Replicate, but they balanced it as if it was Buyback. If you look at something like Shattering Spree, which isn't even fantastic tbh, and compare it to Consign to Dust or Kiora's Dismissal like dude, of course nobody liked these wtf.

Then he goes on to say

Strive only goes on instants and sorceries, and it had to be an effect that targeted and made sense targeting more than one thing. We were able to design 20 cards for Journey into Nyx, but I'm skeptical there's 20 more without repeating a lot of effects.

.... You can't think of more than 20 multi-targeted effects in this game? and we're trusting you to design for it? bruh

rbar2255 on Merfolk Mentor's Modern Magic Counterspell

5 years ago

How about Kiora's Dismissal as an answer to Boggles, Prison, or other Enchantment-based archetypes?

Darth_Savage on Grixis (mostly) Toolbox (probably)

5 years ago

I think I understand what you are trying to do now, essentially you want to make what is refered to as a toolbox deck. Thing is your sort of in the wrong colours, traditionally would be the primary colours of the toolbox. The GW Toolbox uses cards like Chord of Calling and Eldritch Evolution to fish out creature based answers. In there isn't really an equivelent, however you could try cards like Disciple of Deceit to fetch answers. However answering enchantments outside GW is difficult, the best options are probably Kiora's Dismissal or Drake Familiar...

Eidolon of the Great Revel can be played around by using cards like Biting Rain or Morsel Theft, basically any card which has an alternative cost or a cost reduction as the Eidolon only checks the converted mana cost, not the cost you actually paid. I made a half hearted attempt at a sort of toolbox here Grixis Toolbox, it isn't really efficient enough, but it might help you out.

What would help more though is just running the low cost removal and killing Monastery Swiftspear and Eidolon the turn your opponent plays them, or near after. Trying to play around someone elses deck dilutes what your own deck is able to do. There is an article on wizards pages which covers this very topic https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/reconstructed/zero-sixty-2012-03-26 (apologies the link wouldn't work) I'd suggest you give it a read...

If you still want to build a toolbox deck then I'd suggest dropping Red in favour of Green, between Black Green and Blue you should be able to answer near enough everything...

Darth_Savage on Izzet Prowess - Modern

5 years ago

I'd suggest Abrade or Ancient Grudge to help deal with artifacts, red doesn't really have any options for enchantments though. Blue has generic bounce cards like Boomerang and Eye of Nowhere, but they are normally better targeted at land if played, you could try Kiora's Dismissal or Drake Familiar if enchantments are a particular issue for you.

Hope that's of some help, good luck with your brew.

ShikiTen on Draw-MATIC Effects

5 years ago

I love this deck. It reminds me of the early days of my Nekusar deck (which initially was going to have Lord of Tresserhorn as the commander before Nekusar, the Mindrazer showed up later that year). I am assuming you're on a more budgeted approach as some of the key Nekusar wheels that are more expensive are missing.

As for recommendations, I'll start by saying it might be easier to avoid cards like Psychic Spiral. While overall not a terrible effect, it's only useful if you play 1v1 or just need to finish someone off (which can be done with a massive similar effect). Here are some cuts I would make as well as what might be good replacements at similar or better mana costs:

  1. Psychic Spiral out for Time Reversal. - Effects everybody and still causes major pain from Nekusar.
  2. Laquatus's Creativity out for Wheel and Deal. - Slightly cheaper, hits all opponents, and replaces itself.
  3. Intellectual Offering out for Khorvath's Fury. - Choose everyone to be friend, & Nekusar causes pain. Also replaces itself with the added +1 draw.
  4. Day's Undoing out for Whirlpool Warrior. - Day's Undoing doesn't actually work with Nekusar because it ends the turn (removing all Nekusar's triggers on the stack). As an avid Nekusar player, this saddens me. If you don't like Whirlpool Warrior's enter the battlefield effect, Teferi's Puzzle Box is another great option. {Personally I would try to get both).
  5. Prophetic Prism out for Dimir Signet. - You have the other 2 signets for color fixing, why not get the third?

As for some other good-stuff cards you might want to look at: Magus of the Jar, Magus of the Wheel, Helm of Awakening, & Fellwar Stone are all possibile additions if you don't like some of the other suggestions.

Honestly, I am glad I found this deck because of a card YOU have in here that I need in mine. Kiora's Dismissal is great enchantment hate my deck needs as I regularly face against a G/W token deck with an enchantment sub-theme. Anyway, +1 from me on the deck!

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