Necromantic Pact
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Posted on March 20, 2015, 10:16 a.m. by Sparda1127
My friends and I were designing a set, and I took over designing most of the cards in 
.
This is something I wanted to bounce off of you guys:
Necromantic Pact
Legendary Enchantment
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you may instead pay 3 life and draw a card from your graveyard.
I feel like the casting cost is okay as-is, but I'm not sure about life loss. I was thinking of upping it to five, but I'm not sure. What do you guys think? It's meant to be a sort of anti-mill sideboard card.
lemmingllama says... #3
A cool ability, but not very relevant in most games. I would consider moving the casting cost to 
, since if it is anti-mill then you need to get it out quickly.
This doesn't really need to be Legendary. Also it should probably be worded "If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, return a card from your graveyard to your hand and lose 3 life instead." This means it's a replacement effect similar to Laboratory Maniac.
March 20, 2015 10:25 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #4
It's way too... Situational. I'd honestly like to see something along the lines of this:
"At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay 
. If you do, put a card from your graveyard chosen at random on top of your library."
I think it would be cool outside of trying to stop mill, so I could see that card with a mana cost of ?
March 20, 2015 10:27 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
Doesn't need to be legendary and is extraordinarily narrow in applicability. How often would a card like this even be relevant? You'd only use it if you built around it; it's not really a good or reliable counter to mill.
March 20, 2015 11:17 a.m.
Oh, your post got me an idea!
Enchantment - Rare
If you would draw a card, you may pay 3 life instead. If you do, return a card from your graveyard to your hand.
What do you think? Too OP or UP?
March 20, 2015 11:38 a.m.
The word pact makes me automatically think that the manacost should be 
I like NorthernRavens card though. Manacost should be higher though. Or maybe it should be the top card in graveyard.
March 20, 2015 11:44 a.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #9
for the ability, it should be random, and it should be "instead of drawing, put a card from ur grave into ur hand"
March 20, 2015 9:03 p.m.
Enchantment - Rare
If you would draw a card, you may pay 3 life instead. If you do, return a card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
I actually quite like this card. Could be fun in a UB control shell ;)
And no DERPLINGSUPREME, the wording is correct. Look at Darkblast and see how the dredge is worded! :)
March 21, 2015 8:10 a.m.
MagicalHacker says... #11
So what should the name be? Because I don't know that necromantic pact is the perfect name. Blood memories was the first thing I thought of but idk that it's any better.
March 21, 2015 8:40 a.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #13
OH! sorry, my issue was it had no "instead" cluase, but I just didnt see it!
March 21, 2015 3:01 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #14
Sanguine recall feels more like recalling sanguine things, there's not as much of a blue feeling to the name. :/ then again this is all subjective haha
The_Raven says... #2
Laboratory Maniac. 100 times better. Sorry to say.
Cool idea though! It should just not read "When there is no cards in your library"! :)
March 20, 2015 10:23 a.m.