Card of the Week Contest #391: Necessary Sacrifices

Entry based on SCP-3199
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Entry:

In honor of both Crimson Vow spoiler season and a Vampire the Masquerade campaign I'm planning.

You may want to slightly reformat that ability as this interacts very poorly with the likes of Rest in Peace. Like, "oops I exiled my entire deck" badly. Formatting for these effects is typically "Reveal until you reveal X, put X into hand and rest into graveyard/bottom of library/etc." so that replacement effects don't prevent the effects from being able to track what goes where.

Oof, you're right. I thought about that interaction briefly, but I overlooked that it creates an auto-lose situation, and was avoiding "reveal, then put" because it made the text too long. I reasoned that there was no Rest in Peace with flash, so you could just... not activate her when one is on the board, but I realize now that there's too many ways to sneak stuff in, especially in commander. I'm gonna think on this and make some changes. Hopefully I can fit the 'reveal and put' formatting in. At the very least I'll put "you may" in front so you can just opt not to mill if someone flashes in [card]Leyline of the Void[/card]. Thanks for the assist!

My entry is also a bit of a prediction. I think Karn will destroy Mirrodin/New Phyrexia to stop the Phyrexias once and for all.

There's just one problem with that storyline... he's a bit too late (yes, that is vorinclex on kaldheim. yes, I had a small freak out when that was spoiled). We don't quite know how, yet, but a Phyrexian have gotten out of New Phyrexia, and those fuckers are like ants: where there's one, there's thousands. That means the Phyrexian storyline's not gonna be resolvable with just one big boom, not to mention the theory crafting that went around during war of the gods, that Elspeth's spear is dripping with psuedo-phyrexian oil.

Which is just the state of the multiverse. It's not even considering that wizards is telling a story in perpetuity, meaning that now that they've put both bolas and the eldrazi in bottom storage; the phyrexians are the only big multiplanar threat left in play right now (that we know of), so to keep a throughline through the various sets, they've gotta have to keep 'em around for a while at least until some new big bad can pop up to menace the multiverse and gatewatch.

That said, it's a reasonable prediction that Karn's going to try to do that thing, considering they set it up so that he could at least attempt it.

Fun fact! There's evidence to suggest that, yeah, they chose to each other. According to accounts^[source] from the Washoe tribe that lived in the area, their scouts left meat and potatoes just outside the camp for Donner and his party, and the Donner party chose to shoot at the scouts and eat each other rather than accept their aid. So yeah, they didn't have to eat people, but they did. Yuck.