TSG
TSG has been involved in Magic for the better part of his life. While only sporting 1 Pro Tour appearance on his resume he does have an extensive knowledge of the game and its history. Financial eye for Channelfireball.com and co-host of Magic TV means split duties already along with trying to find time to play Magic for himself.
lol
What means all those tap signals?
its to simulate shaking up a snow globe
That is actually a good card lol, almost a opposition type effect.
it isn’t really a good card. Check out No Mercy which is the card it is based off of.
Nice! How do you get your hands on one?
@ Tophat
I guess it is all relative, if we had Deed around, ratchet bomb would be considered garbage.
@Andrew That comparison only works if the better card is good. No Mercy isn’t good.
That is just silly. Enchantments do not tap. Should have been an Artifact.
I haven’t played with No Mercy, but I think it gets bashed more than it deserves. If you’re a control deck capable of repeating life gain, what is an aggro deck going to do? Alpha strike you? There’s no way they can do that unless you have absolutely nothing going on.
I’ve always kind of thought these cards were cute, and this one was well designed.
Where do you get one of these?
Ditto with the “Where do you get it” comments. Way to tease us CFB.
I’d like to give photo credit to Evan Erwin from Star City Games for this promo photo, thanks Evan.
–TSG
They are given out to Wizard’s employees only, so you probably won’t get hold of one 🙂 (at least that’s how it has been with previous holiday cards, so I assume it’s the same this year). But some tend to find their ways to dealers sooner or later.
It means you actually have to “shake” the card like a snow-globe-souvenir XD
@ Mat: Actually enchantments can tap. See Flowstone Embrace or Second Wind.
just next level them and board in relic putrescence
Haha! That’s too funny.
@rex
Good thing relic putrescence targets only artifacts. 🙂
I love the flavor the card creates…kinda wish I worked for wizards 🙂
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Larious
Man Wizards has to be smoking something when they come up with these and the Un sets
Oh yeah TSG keep on doing the Monday Night Magic thing. Much welcome addition.
I own All the King’s Men Chess & Games in Pitman, NJ and I just now open my holiday promo pack from WotC as an expression of their “gratitude” for being one of their sales accounts. Include in this promo pack was one (1) Snow Mercy holiday promo card. I will most likely make it a prize at one of our MtG events. FYI.
just once i would like wizards to really break a holiday promo card – since they are playable in casual formats like edh and the cube – e.g. one black sorcery search your library for a card and put it into your hand etc. – why not, it would really help out this type of promo
@james
look at mise, perfect example of a card that would be totally broken in a normal mtg enviroment. It’s not the only one too.