This may sound cliche or be a response that most would roll their eyes at, but my favorite card is Jace, the Mind Sculptor. Playing Mythic Conscription during its heyday and then switching over to U/W CawBlade before and after Jace and Stoneforge Mystic was banned, I have fond memories of the card and still can't help but smile every time I cast it. Even though it's only legal in Commander and Legacy as widely supported formats, I'm looking forward to the day when I acquire enough revised dual lands to be able to bust out my playset of Jaces once again and give Legacy a legitimate shot.
So yeah, my favorite card is Jace, the Mind Sculptor.
EDIT: Woohoo, 1500th post in this contest, which means that my chances of winning will eventually be less than 1:100. Oh well, here's to sick rips off of Jace's Brainstorm!
Thanks for clearing this up. If there's one thing I can't stand (and maybe it's the OCD in me), it's people pronouncing card names incorrectly. I don't know how many times I've heard Memoricide butchered.
Which is right? It's not an actual word, but I treat the word like any other word that ends in -cide stressing the last syllable (suicide, homicide, pesticide, etc) So I say MEM-ri-CIDE, with a short "i" sound for the second syllable.
Tamiyo makes sense since I recall several Japanese based words having the "i" in the word sounding like a long "e".
The one that gets me though is Kokusho, the Evening Star. I've heard...
1. KŌ-koo-shō (long "O" sound on the stressed first and third syllables)
2. kō-KOO-shō (like #1, except stressing only the second syllable)
3. kush-kō (Dude, are you serious kid?)
Number 1 is right, according to the CoK players guide.
1. tuh – MĪ - oh. Stressing the second syllable.
2. TĂM – ee - oh. Stressing the first syllable (think Shammy-o).
3. TAH - me - oh. Stressing the first syllable. (Thanks pandafarmer)
I'm thinking the correct way is probably the first one, seems more natural. Plus, when I get uber lucky in opening three booster boxes and crack open 5 of her, I can run around like a chicken with my head cut off flashing them in everyone's face yelling "Lookie here suckers! Cinco Tamiyo!"
You resolve one ability first, then you resolve 20 Jace's Erasure triggers.
Is there any way to explain what kind of statistical anomaly this is? I mean, I know things are random and all, but seriously? Just one? The reason I buy cards by the booster box is so I can get playsets of any commons and uncommons that get popular and I don't have to worry about buying them when they shoot up in price. Here's hoping Spined Thopter isn't going to be a $1.50 common in every tournament deck any time soon.
Does this make sense? I have opened 109 packs of NPH, and recently I just got my 4th Mental Misstep in the 108th pack, but after sorting every common, uncommon, and rare alphabetically and by color, I found out that of all the commons that I have about 10 apiece on average, I only have ONE Spined Thopter! What the heck is this about? Is there some sort of secret rarity or something regarding this card? I can't believe that I only have one copy. And it's not that bad of a card either.
First booster:
No Sword of War and Peace
1x Karn Liberated
1x Surgical Extraction
2x Phyrexian Metamorph
1x Batterskull
1x Phyrexian Obliterator
ZERO Mental Misstep (I shouted Bull**** at every uncommon that wasn't a MM at around halfway through my box, then raged at the last pack. Still can't believe this crap.)
2nd booster Box:
No Sword of War and Peace
No Karn Liberated
2x Surgical Extraction
1x Batterskull
1x Phyrexian Obliterator
2x Mental Misstep
This Mental Misstep stuff really pissed me off. I can go to the Prerelease and open up 1 out of the 3 packs I had for my sealed deck, but in the following prize pack, another prerelease (3 packs), Top 8 prize pack, two I bought at midnight, one fat pack (9 packs), and two booster boxes (72 packs), I only open up two, to give me three total out of 91 packs combined. What the hell ever, that's complete crap.
Grand Total of What I've Opened from Everything
Necro Warning.
I suppose you're correct. How's this?
Who knows, since we've seen other incarnations of planeswalkers and iterations that were different than the ones printed before, who's to say that Venser can or can't be different than what we expect. I just decided to mix it up a little. No harm done, that's why it's in the custom card forum.