MTG Salvation

I like this better than Think Twice, and I liked Think Twice an awful lot.

Fair point!

Don't think of it as discarding. Think of it as transforming any card in your hand into a copy of that card.

You have to send this card from your hand to your graveyard (i.e., discard it) in order to cast it the first time. You just have to do the same thing to another card in order to cast it again.

There are loads of opportunities this opens up.

The most basic is simply pitching a card you don't want for a new one (at instant speed at the end of your opponent's turn, so you're not wasting mana). If you drew that end-game card too early or it's lategame and you don't need another Island, dump it to accelerate your hand to something useful.


You can also put a card in the graveyard that you want to have there. If you toss another card with Jump-Start, you can use that card in the graveyard. If you have any effects that key off of having certain things in the graveyard or effects that need the graveyard for fuel, Jump-Start lets you feed into those effects.

Not necessarily. I can discard something like Circular Logic for value, I can get something into my graveyard for effects that care about that, and even without any other synergy I can basically give a dead card in my hand pseudo-cycling 1U. Sure, in a vacuum discarding a card might not seem worth paying 1 less, but you have to consider what possibilities that opens up.

But you have to DISCARD A CARD and pay 2 mana to just DRAW ANOTHER CARD.
Only playable with instant/sorcery synergies

This card definitely reminds one of Think twice. This is definitely playable in standard.

This is kind of like getting the two different activations of Compulsion off without having to pay its initial cost; Cycles itself, then cycles another card. Catalog seems better for the most part, though.

The idea of Jump-Start is stupid. R&D really needs to stop making so many lookalike mechanics. Why do we need yet another mechanic (Jump-Start) when we already have Flashback? Why couldn't they just make the Flashback costs more expensive or whatever if they wanted to rein in the power level? I am in favor of streamlining things, like the rules changes in the past few years. I would prefer they do that here, as well.

The actual card doesn't look too bad. Just the mechanic is annoying to me, I think.

I kinda have to agree, Jump-start is basically flashback with a twist, but mechanically it's no differant then Flashback: CMC, Discard a card.

Most of the mechanics in this set are overall very underwhelming. I hate ability words as a general rule, all they do is add text to a card.

Surveil - Probably the best ability in the set at least mechanicly. It's a cross between explore, and scry.

Convoke - Its been brought back, and this time they left it very underwhelming. There is nothing that really shows off why you want to use it this time around.

Undergrowth - I'm just gonna leave this as an ugly excuse for a poorly designed mechanic.

Mentor - Sigh, nothing new here. Just a new version of Fortify