Card of the Week Contest #269: Modern + Timespiraled = Fun

One of my favorite cards of all time is Eight-and-a-Half-Tails. This card pays homage to that figure.

AFAIK Sensei's Divining Top was banned for causing slow play, not for power, so maybe this makes it better. It's only repeatable under certain circumstances and it's costing more demanding mana to use every turn

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Ancestral Recall+Force of Will=Fun

cromatikin son of cromat

I had an idea for this which I thought was too clever, but then appeared almost exactly in MH1. (tho i had kick-start rather than retrace) Decided to do this dumb interaction instead.



The gold clause is just a very Alara way of avoiding the abuse case of X = 1, where it can be used to turn your Ancestral Vision into an Ancestral Recall for , though looking at the thread I'm not sure that should have been a concern

Feedback time!

Tesagk: I knew the reference by name and picture alone. Splice is kind of a flavour fail since the spirits fought the mortals on Kamigawa and arcanes represent spirit magic

sdfkjgh: Resurrecting a creature for every round without any setup before is really powerful. You kind of tend to make cards that are around the edge of op, right?

Aarhg: Fading has never been in Modern. You could use Vanishing 3 though.

gurfafflekins: Rith, together with the four other Invasion dragons dealt a major blow against the Phyrexians during the war back then. They also could have taken over the world but Darigaaz (or more correctly Rhammidarigaaz) decided to rather kill himself than become a cruel tyrant over all of Dominaria. Stupid dragon.
Now for your card: I don't get why it is a may-trigger. Why wouldn't you want ot create Saprolings? They are adorable!

Jartis: Works, I guess.

ludvikeverviolet: Is this just Lightning Bolt on legs or am I missing some other reference? EDIT: Snapcaster Mage, right?

jarribas309: There is a "pay" too much in your text.

sade612: Maybe you might want to turn more towards Sorcerer's Strongbox? It's really frustrating and unfun to pay 5 mana to do nothing half the time.

marshmellow: Sorry, I don't get the reference. Maybe Firemind Vessel with an upgrade?

kinotherapy: That is a really nice way of going around X = 1. I still think with X = 2 you can do pretty dumb stuff in the right deck. But I also think that's just me, since some card for XAB won a CotW somewhere back then.

fluffydeathbringer: Path to Magara. Fun.

Xenagos: Nice build around card.

In homage to one of my favorite cards: Kor Skyfisher

Kreig's Assault
Sorcery
Hellbent— If you have no cards in hand, until end of turn, if a red source you control would deal damage, it deals that much damage plus 1 instead.
Keldon Assault deals 3 damage to up to one target creature or planeswalker.
Jump-start

A reference to Gathan Raiders both in flavor and in being a mixed-mechanic card.
e: changed name to make the reference more obvious, now references Kreig (a Gathan) as well.

"The Meteor Hammer spell was used by Tetsuo Umezawa to destroy the Imperial Shrine and thus rob Nicol Bolas of the mana base he needed to manifest in Dominaria. Tetsuo was taught this spell by Kolo Meha. The spell made the warhammer of Jorgan Hage fly into the sky until it reached the edge of the atmosphere, from where it plummeted like a meteor on Tetsuo's command. The spell was instrumental in the destruction of Nicol Bolas and the liberation of the Madaran Empire from his tyrannical rule." (Source)
So, this is obviously not Hage's hammer, but this card here doesn't mirror the spell how it was used by Tetsuo, only the spell per se.
Wording might be strange, but I couldn't think of a better wording: As X is double the CMC, half X is exactly the CMC, so sacrifice something with CMC 5 to deal 10 damage and to let the player sacrifice five permanents.