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1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy 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
Historic Brawl Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Pre-release Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Search for Blex

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of our library. You may put any number of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life for each card you put into your hand this way.

Neotrup on What happens if you turn …

3 weeks ago

I think the key here is that the back side of Blex, Vexing Pest  Flip is not a permanent card. In the final example, Invasion of Kylem  Flip is entering as a copy of a creature. Because of how copy effects work, Valor's Reach Tag Team  Flip is also a copy of Bird Admirer  Flip, so it's a creature entering the battlefield. The rule still explicitly prevents it from entering, even though it's type is changed. Search for Blex  Flip is perpetually an artifact instead of a sorcery, but it's still on some level a sorcery card for the sake of being able to enter the battlefield.

Gidgetimer on What happens if you turn …

3 weeks ago

I agree that the resolving Search for Blex  Flip will do nothing. I am, however; confused by the assertation that the spell will go to the graveyard. Reezug, the Bonecobbler doesn't say "in addition to its other types" and so the Search for Blex  Flip will no longer be a sorcery. The bit about "Instant and sorcery cards can’t enter the battlefield" in 110.4 and 712.13a will not apply since it is not an instant or sorcery.

Rhadamanthus on What happens if you turn …

3 weeks ago

The rules covering situations similar to this seem to indicate Search for Blex  Flip will do nothing as it resolves and will go back to the graveyard, but the problem is that because this specific interaction is only possible in Arena play, the Comprehensive Rules don't seem to have been updated with something that makes the results explicitly clear. To know for sure about how it works in Arena, you might have to throw together a deck and run games against a bot until you can make it happen.

For the "do nothing" reasoning: The rules for how to resolve a permanent spell in 608.3 don't have a step similar to anything in 608.2 (the rules for instants, sorceries and abilities) that would actually process the rules text of the spell.

For going back to the graveyard: I'm relying on the combination of the following rules. The last one is actually about transforming DFCs, not modal DFCs, but I'm taking it as an example about what's intended to happen with a modal DFC in this situation.

110.4. There are six permanent types: artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker. Instant and sorcery cards can’t enter the battlefield and thus can’t be permanents. Some kindred cards can enter the battlefield and some can’t, depending on their other card types. See section 3, “Card Types.”
110.4a The term “permanent card” is used to refer to a card that could be put onto the battlefield. Specifically, it means an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.

608.3e If a permanent spell resolves but its controller can’t put it onto the battlefield, that player puts it into its owner’s graveyard.
Example: Worms of the Earth has the ability “Lands can’t enter the battlefield.” Clone says “You may have Clone enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.” If a player casts Clone and chooses to copy Dryad Arbor (a land creature) while Worms of the Earth is on the battlefield, Clone can’t enter the battlefield from the stack. It’s put into its owner’s graveyard.

712.13. By default, a resolving double-faced spell that becomes a permanent is put onto the battlefield with the same face up that was face up on the stack.
712.13a Some abilities may cause a transforming double-faced spell with its front face up on the stack to enter the battlefield transformed or converted. If the back face of the card that represents that spell is an instant or sorcery card, or that spell is a copy of a double-faced card created with an instant or sorcery back face, it doesn’t enter the battlefield, and is instead put into its owner’s graveyard.
Example: A player controls both Mycosynth Lattice and March of the Machines, the combined effects of which make all permanents artifact creatures in addition to their other types. They also control a Clone on the battlefield that is a copy of Bird Admirer, a creature with daybound. It is currently night, but that permanent can’t transform because it isn’t represented by a double-faced card. Its controller casts Mystic Reflection targeting it, then casts Invasion of Kylem, a Siege battle whose back face is a sorcery. Because Invasion of Kylem is entering the battlefield as a creature, Mystic Reflection’s replacement effect applies to it and it tries to enter the battlefield as a copy of Bird Admirer. Since it is night, the daybound ability would normally cause it to enter with its back face up. However, since its back face is a sorcery, it is instead put into its owner’s graveyard.

Yesterday on What happens if you turn …

3 weeks ago

Arena-specific question. I don't think I have the cards to test it RN.

Reezug, the Bonecobbler can turn both sides of a MDFC creature into an artefact. I've done this before with a Sheoldred  Flip which I paid to flip over into an artefact that didn't do anything. I've also seen it happen to a Grist, Voracious Larva  Flip which transformed into an artefact with loyalty abilities.

What happens if you turn a Blex, Vexing Pest  Flip into an artefact card and then cast Search for Blex  Flip?

1empyrean on Calling all Graveyard lovers

2 years ago

I like Sudden Reclamation, Search for Blex, Grisly Salvage, Underrealm Lich, and Golgari Grave-Troll. There are plenty of self mill options (these and others), so you really just need to figure out which ones work for you.

cleandeceit on Toxic Relationship: Hapatra EDH [PRIMER]

3 years ago

@Nawg, try Concordant Crossroads + Cryptolith Rite .

@Daedalus19876, I want to suggest replacing Seshiro the Anointed with Blex, Vexing Pest  Flip and here is why. 1st, if pulling a combo with Yawgmoth via an anthem effect, Blex has an advantage in that he is only 3cmc rather than 6cmc. 2nd, Blex will work with Nest of Scarabs where Seshiro does not. 3rd, when looking for card draw, Search for Blex is faster and more flexible. Getting to see 5 cards for 4 mana is really efficient, especially when the cards you dont choose to pay life for go to the graveyard anyway, making it possible to recur them later. In the majority of cases, this is going to be a much better way to put cards in your hand, rather than paying six and having to get through with combat damage.

qwrtyp on Valentin, Mono Black(ish)

3 years ago

Strange, I would think people would love to tutor their wincons with Maralen of the Mornsong and then kill her!

I've found Search for Blex to be pretty good filter/draw if you can afford to pay at max 15 to draw 5. And what about Castle Locthwain .

imjohnwelsch on Dina, Soul Steeper Witherbloom Witchcraft Upgrade

3 years ago

qwrtyp Thanks! Search for Blex I agree would be good. The card itself wouldn't fit into the budget that I was going for. Looking back I probably would change out the Harrow , Roiling Regrowth , amd Khalni Heart Expedition . For a Wood Elves , Farhaven Elf , and a Springbloom Druid to have more creatures to sacrifice and trigger both Grim Haruspex and Midnight Reaper

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