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Psionic Blast
Instant
Psionic Blast deals 4 damage to any target (creature, player or planeswalker) and 2 damage to you.
zapyourtumor on
An Attempt at Azorius Prowess
1 year ago
I highly recommend Ledger Shredder, it should be pretty strong in a UW prowess for a couple reasons. You'll be triggering its connive pretty often, which would grow it into a pretty big threat. It can help you dig for gas and discard excess lands. And lastly, prowess decks usually want a certain ratio between creatures and spells, and if you have too many of one or the other Shredder can help you dig for what you need.
Curious Homunculus Flip and Monastery Mentor are some other suggestions I thought of for prowess creatures in UW, both of them are a little slow but both of them can be pretty strong, and especially Mentor can run away with the game just on his own.
The main weakness of mono blue is a lack of ways to deal with resolved permanents, so I'd lean a lot more on your white splash for more removal. You have 2 Paths, but depending on your meta I think you could maybe up that number. I'd also run 2+ Prismatic Ending, since it's the strongest removal in white and you can go up to X=3 if you run a single Raugrin Triome. Some RW prowess lists literally splashed white for nothing but Ending so the card is definitely pretty good in prowess shells.
I'd cut Mana Tithe, Psionic Blast, and Mishra's Bauble for a few different reasons. Tithe is that funny white counterspell, except you're literally in blue so you have better options (ex. Spell Pierce). Also, counterspells typically don't work too well in prowess decks since you want to be casting spells on your turn, instead of holding up mana for your opponent's. Psionic Blast is funny but I think the card is just too bad to justify running it. Bauble seems bad here because you have no DRC, and basically every card only cares about instants and sorceries. It doesn't buff Clever Luminancer, it doesn't let you cast Stormwing for 1U, it doesn't give Murktide a counter, it doesn't flip delver, it doesn't remove counters from TITI.
Defiant Strike could also be a consideration since it's both a cantrip and a pump spell.
DreadKhan on
Into the Sharknado
1 year ago
My personal gripe with Capture Sphere is that it's too much mana for the effect. If you expect to be able to swing at people, there is Fall from Favor that has seen some play, 3 mana is closer to what you want to pay to remove a serious problem creature (and Monarch can mean lots of extra cards), though Blue has stuff like Pongify, Curse of the Swine and Reality Shift, as well as Ravenform and Resculpt that can also exile an artifact. Another issue Capture Sphere has it that it doesn't remove the creature from the field, so any abilities that just require the creature to exist will still work, which can be a real problem. The final issue is as you note, if you can deal with an enchantment the effect can be removed, in contrast with a Pongify. I think it's a better card for a sideboard, where you bring it in for games 2 or 3 in the games where it'll matter, to avoid having it clog up your hand when it doesn't.
I used to use Slow Motion a fair bit, and while it has very good matchups, it also has lots of them where the opponent doesn't care about 2 mana and can just kill you with the creature your aura didn't kill, and that is a card that the opponent can't deal with as easily, it still doesn't consistently enough matter, or doesn't immediately get the creature off the field. In my Delver deck, which is a bit higher budget but not a lot, I run Counterspell and Psionic Blast to deal with stuff/close out games a smidge quicker, both are instant, both use less than 4 mana and Psionic Blast is almost never a dead card, since I can just bolt my opponent.
markbeloit on Card creation challenge
2 years ago
Revenge of the Forest
Sorcery
Spend only green mana on X.
Revenge of the Forest deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. That permanent's control adds X .
The verdant forest drowned the soldiers in its fury
A blue burn spell? (There is one, Psionic Blast, but, well, it's been awhile)
plakjekaas on Strixhaven color "balancing"
3 years ago
Psionic Blast is a card from Alpha, as is Prodigal Sorcerer . Blue has had direct damage since before green could draw cards.
Caerwyn on Can a game be a …
3 years ago
In the future, please use the RulesQ&A section if you have questions about rules, cards, or card interactions. That section has some advanced functionality, including the ability to mark an answer as accepted to indicate your question has been resolved. I have moved the thread for you.
To answer your question, this situation would result in the game being a draw, as both players will simultaneously lose due to having 0 health when state based actions are checked after the resolution of Psionic Blast.
YodaVoda on Can a game be a …
3 years ago
Is a game considered a draw if my opponent has 4 life and i have 2 and i cast Psionic Blast and it resolves dealing lethal damage to both of us?
DemonDragonJ on Why Does WotC Continue to …
4 years ago
WotC has openly admitted that certain recent cards are outright breaks of the color pie, most notably Beast Within (because green is not supposed to be able to unconditionally destroy creatures) and Harmonize (because green is not supposed to be able to unconditionally draw cards), yet they have reprinted those cards numerous times, so I am wondering why that is.
WotC has not reprinted Prodigal Sorcerer or Psionic Blast in many years, because those cards do not fit into the modern color pie, so why does WotC continue to reprint newer cards that break the color pie? What does everyone else say about this?
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