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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#411: Ravnica Cards, Part 3

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Ccg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is the third part of a five-part series on the cards of original Ravnica.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:02.4

We all know what that means.

0:03.7

It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.3

Okay, so the last two podcasts, I've started talking, oh, excuse me.

0:11.0

I've started with a sneeze.

0:13.4

I have been talking all about Radnika.

0:16.7

So I got up to F.

0:18.5

I'm still on F.

0:19.5

So we will continue with Flickr Form.

0:22.6

So Flickr Form is an enchantment, an aura that costs one in a white, so two mana, one of which is white.

0:28.6

You enchant creature. And then if you spend two white-white, so four mana total, two of which is white,

0:34.6

you remove the enchanted creature plus any aura on it,

0:40.9

and then it gets returned to end of turn, what we call flickering. Flickering was, if you guys

0:47.6

remember my Earth's Destiny podcast, there was a card called Flickr, and we've made a lot of cards

0:51.5

that do that ability. Sometimes they go away and come back instantly.

0:55.0

Sometimes they go away and come back to end of turn. This one is designed for end of turn.

0:59.0

It does allow you to do shenanigans like I can enchant my opponent's creature and then spend man every turn to remove it as a blocker.

1:06.0

Or I could put it on my own creature that has, you know, some enter the battlefield effect so I can re-trigger it.

1:12.3

Or I could just put it on a good creature and then if they tried to destroy it, I could pay mana to save it.

1:17.5

There's a bunch of different ways to use this.

1:19.5

The one thing that's unique about this is not only does it save itself, but it saves any oras that are on the creature.

1:26.2

And so it is definitely, it was designed to be pro-ora.

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