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Pojo's Magic The Gathering Card of the Day
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5UU
Enchantment - Rare
Whenever a player plays an instant
or sorcery card, remove it from
the game. Then that player copies
each instant or sorcery card removed
from the game with Eye of the
Storm. For each copy, the
player may play the copy
without paying its mana cost.
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Eye of the Storm
Ravnica
Reviewed September 23, 2005
Constructed: 2.5
Casual: 2.87
Limited: 1.5
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Jeff Zandi
5
Time Pro Tour
Veteran
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Eye of the
Storm
I don't really understand this card. More
importantly, I can't imagine why such a card
would be created. Is the idea that the person
playing this card might be the only player using
sorceries and instants? Is this a sideboard card
for blue control decks against super aggressive
creature decks? Why would you want a bunch of
cards to get copied by BOTH players? Finally,
why would you want to play an enchantment that
costs seven? There WILL be some interesting
decks invented using this card. I think these
decks will be limited to the Extended and Legacy
environments. No love for this card in limited,
either.
CONSTRUCTED: 2.0
CASUAL: 2.0
LIMITED: 1.5
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DeQuan
Watson
* Game Store Owner |
Eye of the
Storm 5UU
Quite simply, I don't like this card. Oddly, it
might work into a strange combo in some way.
However, I don't understand the benefit of
allowing your opponent to get all of the removed
cards effects (at instant speed no less) and
having to deal with it from behind a slow blue
deck.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 3
Limited: 1
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Paul Hagan |
Eye of the
Storm --
Junk rare. Usually, whenever you see something
that messes with the game state to the degree
that Eye of the Storm does, you can pass on it.
When it costs seven, the chances of it being bad
increase a bit more, since you have to have a
lot of mana to play the iffy card. When both
players can benefit from the card, then you can
probably just set your drink on it now and use
it as a coaster, because that's about all it
will be worth. Just pass.
Constructed Rating: 1.5
Casual Rating: 2.0 -- I know about you guys and
wacky combo decks :)
Limited Rating: 1.5
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Christine
Gerhardt |
Another Blue Mage darling, most likely.
Eye of the Storm is actually quite
interesting, as it has the potential to
be quite chaotic. Consider that Blue is
playing this puppy. That means that many
permission spells involved. Maybe you
could quintuple counter something. Draw
tons of cards. Direct damage for large
amounts. There is a lot of potential
here, limited only by your imagination
and card pool. Definitely a card for the
creative types. You'll have to find a
way to get it out earlier, or stall
until it can hit - but where there's a
will, there's a way, and Blue always
seems to be pretty willful.
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