We OG players asked all these questions with the Ring of Ma’rûf
And yes, you can get any card (say a Jyhad vampire) into your hand, but we hadn’t figured out how to get it into play.
A clever use for it at the time was to bring in a powerful but reasonable custom made card (preferably one with novel, interesting effects) and then cast that. This was especially cool at the time since this was before Tempest. Power creep was not yet noticeable and they hadn’t gotten in to the really wild mechanics of the later expansions.
To play a card in M:TG it must have either the Land type, a mana cost, or some other means of casting it explicitly described in the card text.
Since this spell only puts the card in your hand, congratulations, you now have a useless card that you can’t cast.
What’s the consensus on the rules of the game for the chosen card?
Would a Cards Against Humanity black card, which does not require mana to play, be playable? Would other players have to ‘respond’ with a card from their hand?
If you get multiple of these (or recall from graveyard) can you play the card if you also bring in the activation mana/cost whatever?
Is mana equitable across games? If you pull a card from a game that uses the same color mana as your deck, can you play the card? (For example, the game Not Enough Mana uses blue mana that is represented by a water drop.)
The real issue isn’t that the card would have a way to cast it there’s in game ways around that with stuff like cascade.
So assuming you have a way to cast a card with no mana value whatever card would go on the stack and do nothing then just enter your graveyard, probably. That being said I’m no judge.
Cascade would require the card to go into your deck, not your hand. More likely you’d have to get into your graveyard using something like dredge or One With Nothing, and then use some kind of resurrection spell to put it in play. But then you’d have to deal with the fact that most resurrection spells target a specific type, like “creature”.
Ace of spades, baby! Oh, wait…
Use Solemn Wishes from Yu-Gi-Oh and become invincible because nothing in Magic can do 500 dmg
Two problems:
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Solemn Wishes doesn’t have a mana cost, so it can’t be cast. Cards without costs aren’t free in Magic, they’re actually uncastable by normal means.
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LP isn’t health in Magic. It’s called Life. So yeah, you’d gain 500 LP, which would be some kind of spendable currency like energy, but you’d have nothing to spend it on, and it wouldn’t do anything to your life total.
Yes, I am really fun at parties.
I play the white werewolf with the intention to eat my opponent at night.
Hey baby, are you a werewolf? Because I want you to
#eat me
Edit: aw, # no make things big :(
Try putting a space between the octothorp and the text.
# Try putting a space between the octothorp and the text.
