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Published: 2012-01-29 18:24:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1755; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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=========================================================A very heartfelt thank you to for making the awesome custom set symbol.
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This is a custom card created with Magic Set Editor, which can be downloaded for free here: [link]
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Thanks to Wizards of the Coast for creating the game, Magic the Gathering. Magic The Gathering is owned by Wizards of the Coast. [link] Please do not print or attempt to sell this card.
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My approach to card making is art oriented more than anything else because that's what first drew me to the game. When designing a card, my objective is to balance flavor and utility in such a way that it fits into the game seamlessly and would be fun to actually play with.
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Because my custom cards are meant to showcase and promote the awesome artwork, none of the artwork belongs to me. I've listed the artist's name next to the paintbrush at the bottom of the card to give the artist due credit.
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Anotherwanderer has granted me permission to use this art.
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I’m a perfectionist at heart, so I gladly welcome any suggestions you have. All of these cards are WIPs (works in progress). But please try to keep your feedback constructive and don’t argue with me TOO much because I’ll stick to my guns on some points.
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Just a note on wording: It should say "Target player reveals the top card of his or her library. If that card is a sorcery, you may draw three cards. If that card is an instant, ... etc." It's not a big deal though.
Btw, this might be one of my favourite cards you've made (might actually be one of my favourite cards ever).
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Thanks for the corrections and kind words!
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Bird can remain blue since ravens are typically blue anyway.
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ah, but Ravens aren't blue, they are black! 
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I think this card would be more effective with 'Fate Seal' rather than 'Scry'
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Abilities like this usually last until end of turn. If you want a "permanent" kind of turns-into-raven ability I suggest making this an enchantment with flash. I love the "Raven deck" that this goes into (along with Storm Crow and Murder of Crows), but I feel as if the oppressive triple U should be giving me as a player a little more. As a blue player, I like options. In order for me to actually DO something with this spell, I'm forcing myself to topdeck a creature. This isn't so bad, unless I'm attempting a blue control build (something scry generally fits into, but creatures don't).
Right now I'm desperately wanting the spell to do something drastically different depending on the card I reveal from the top of my deck. Maybe a creature bounce if the revealed card is an instant, or letting me draw a card or two if the revealed card is a sorcery. Just a note: scry has been in the past few core sets and I don't think its going away as a keyword anytime soon. I'm not entirely sure you need the reminder text for this card (in case you needed more room in your textbox for something
As a one shot one kind of choice only card, I feel its more in blue's power to "return target creature to an opponent's hand, and put X blue bird tokens with flying into play equal to the power of target creature" than to just flat out turn your opponents creature into a bird. As the card currently stands it's like a permanent removal spell, which doesn't particularly fit into blue's color pie.
I'm not sure you should be making the token black. Crows and Ravens have always been blue creatures in magic, despite their actual skin color. (for a comparison vampires tend to be pale-white, or covered in red blood, despite being distinctly black creatures).
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Making it an enchantment seems flavorful enough.
I don't want to lose the randomness I designed into the card. That's there to make it funner so it plays differently each time you cast it. To that end it could have different effects depending on the revealed card, however that could quickly become very wordy and complex possibly losing flavor. (OH NO!! 
As for permanent removal, pongify does exactly that, except the creature you get is a bit more beefy.
I think breaking tradition on the color of the token isn't such a bad thing. Although that might contribute to making this a rare.
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It's so weird, because you gave me more stuff to do with it, yet dropped the third U that was making me want it so badly.
On the one hand, I'm loving the fateseal, loving how your options are totally based on how well your opponent's deck is built, and loving how forcing them to topdeck a land does absolutely nothing (since top-decking a land is an absolutely horrible thing to do to someone)
On the other hand, I really miss dat flavor text. It's always been my opinion that a card should never do too much that the flavor misses out. I can't in good faith ask you to change it back, so I'm here to tell you good job.
Right now the card most resembles Cryptic Command, except that one of the two choices will always be fatesealing/scrying, it costs U less to cast, and your options are limited by your opponent. I'm thinking this card is as complete as it ever could be.
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Thanks! My take on flavor text is this: Flavor text should only be on cards where the card itself doesn't do enough on its own to make it flavorful, or where there is room for it! haha
as for adding U to the cost, I feel like that really does limit its playability in a lot of decks.
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I understand the reasonning behind it but in terms of practicality shouldnt the creature become a Bird as opposed to Raven?
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Also upped the mana cost by one colorless and made it scry 7. Most mono blue decks don't run a whole lot of creatures anyway, so scry 3 is pretty weak. The scry 7 should at least be useful even if you don't get to Ravenize something.
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Practicality? Hmm... I guess you mean because there isn't already a Raven race? >.> dammit. Updated. I feel like it lost an ounce of flavor though.
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bah! scry 7 might be TOO powerful >.< dropped it to 5.
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what if you made it a black Bird token? A bit subtle but someone may pick up on it lol
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That sir... is genius. Updated.
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