Interesting card! I’ve never seen it. (I haven’t played in over ten years.) In fact, I’ve never seen anything that would let you look at your library.
I say, if you want the folding player to have an “impact” on the outcome, let the first (or last) player to fold choose the number of burned cards, 1 2 or 3. Granted, any impact they have is an illusion, but illusions can still be fun, and give players something to gripe/gloat about.
It’s been longer than that since I’ve played, but even in the early 90s, there were already cards that gave some knowledge of the library. One of my favorite combos (that I never seemed to pull off) was Orcish Spy (look at the top three cards of opponent’s library) and Millstone (opponent must discard top two cards of library). Either one alone was weak (Millstone alone is almost as meaningless as what we’re talking about here, unless you manage to completely empty your opponent’s deck), but with both of them, you could decide whether to use the Millstone before or after your opponent’s draw, and thus exert a large amount of influence over what cards he got.
There needs to be a cold shiver smiley. We were talking poker, and I had to double take. “Since when did Poker have Grav… Wait a second, what is Magic doing in here?!”
- TDN, you would hardly recognize Magic today. Trust me. There are a TON of cards that shuffling would totally mess with. This is not the thread, but yes “Search your library for ______ , reveal it, put it into your hand, and reshuffle your library.” cards do exist. --* As well as to your opponent’s*. CF the MTG card Lobotomy among others.
2.On the Poker side of things, I just see this practice as wasting more cards. Any similar fix would just waste time.
I assume the OP is talking Stud, or Omaha, or Draw.
ANY of those games nearly use all the cards in the first place, and can barely afford the burn cards is.
Heh.
Chronos. I will give you 4 millstone. If you give me 4 GRINDstone.
Yes. Tempest was INSANE. Urzas Saga was even MORE insane.
There’s no card called just Puzzle Box. There’s Teferi’s Puzzle Box, but it’s far more useful then the effect you describe.
You might be thinking of Soldier of Fortune, I guess. I recall players using this to convince opponents with very expensive decks to concede, rather than continually shuffle (and potentially bend) their high-dollar cards.
A funny thing happened to me on my way rounding last night, a Magic game broke out!
But seriously,
Do we want to start MTG discussion ?
I mean, I go over to MTGSalvation for that… but…