MTG Salvation

"I AM the Senate!"
I can't be the only one who had the same thought upon seeing this card. Seriously speaking, could be a nice EDH main-liner...use it to screw over someone's GY or hand shenanigans, or use it to get a fatty out. Unreliable on the second part, but could be a surprise all-star.

thought america was a republic...?

I'll put Dimir as being central in the finale because they're journalists and librarians, apparently.

I just hope the third set in this totally-not-a-block gives us a Jace with an ultimate that resembles Memory Jar.

Scary part is, even democracies have it built into their Constitutions(yes, even us Americans). But that's a discussion best had elsewhere.

Vraska knows, but she doesn't know, IIRC; which is probably why you say it's complicated, amirite?

Funny thing is, IRL dictatorships do this very thing, suspending elections "for the duration of the emergency". The emergency never ends, of course.

This also further supports my theory that Azorius will be the only guild truly aligned with Bolas, and possibly Orzhov as well. The others, what we've seen of Vraska and Ral, Ral can't shake the feeling that he's a pawn, and Vraska...the answer to the question "Does she know?" is complicated.

Addendum is a cast trigger (limited to your main phase) similar to Cascade. So if you cast this and it gets counters, you still get to put a permanent card with converted mana cost 7 or less from your hand onto the battlefield. A decent way to get your Teferi, Hero of Dominaria (or any other permanent) onto the battlefield uncountered.

It's not a cast trigger. (That would imply it's a triggered ability.) It's basically Return to Dust and friends.

Think of other binary mechanics. They're generally not triggered abilities. (Landfall's kind of odd, since it's binary on spells and a trigger on permanents, but all the others.)

Yeah its on resolution, so if you cast the card on your main phase the card basically says

Sorcery
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Exile Emergency Powers, then you may put a permanent card with converted mana cost 7 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.

Are you sure?

I thought that the intent of this card was that you could throw down a permanent from the new hand you draw... which wouldn't really work if the second ability resolved first.

Also, the article that introduced addendum mentioned that some of the addendum effects would be replacement effects (like Might of Old Krosa), which wouldn't really work if addendum is a cast trigger.

Edit: also note that most triggered abilities use "when", "whenever", or "at" whereas Addendum used "if".

An instant speed wheel is pretty powerful, but 7 mana is a doozy. Grand Arbiter Augustin IV can reduce this to 5 mana, though.

Torrential Gearhulk does insane things with this card in the bin.

That's true... there could be quite a few ways to exploit this.

Right, but not if you discard it with a Thoughtscour or something like that.

Remember it exiles itself after you cast it.

I really don’t know what to make of this card. The decks that have the longevity to play it will likely already have a full hand of seven most of the time and the 7 mana freebie might as well be one of the flashable wincons currently running rampant. I think after the sizzle wears off, this will end up in the bulk bin.

Time to collect some alms