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Time Stood Still
[Good Dominant | Joshua 10:13]
A) Place in your territory: If a special ability would cause a player to draw a card(s) (without shuffling their hand), place a counter here instead. Discard this card when it has 5 or more counters.

B) Place in your territory: If a player uses an ability to draw, instead place a counter here. Discard this card when it has five counters.


Notes: The idea for this is to help stop speed (by only allowing normal draw phase drawing of cards for a time). The verse describes how the sun stopped in the sky for a day to let Joshua and the Israelites defeat their enemies, so I thought that stopping your opponent's speedy drawing to give you time to regroup fit with that theme. The card works against your own speed because otherwise it would be a staple in speed decks to shut down the opponent's speed without affecting your own, which would defeat the desired purpose of the card, lol.

Pigs LS gets negated by FBTN LS, at least one artifact, and several heroes. Also, Pigs is a prevent so it can't get around CBN drawing, whereas this can (since it's an instead, not a prevent).

I thought about making it only enhancements, but Fishing Boat/Matthew/Hur+Gifts are non-enhancement cards that are the most used drawing engines in speed currently and it wouldn't even touch them (effectively making it useless for what I'm trying to make it do).

Quote from: browarod on August 08, 2011, 02:10:03 PM

Time Stood Still
[Good Dominant | Joshua 10:13]
Place in your territory: If a special ability would cause a player to draw a card(s) without shuffling their hand, place a counter here instead. Discard this card when it has 5 or more counters.

I think that's the fix you're looking for

That would certainly work, assuming there isn't anything I've forgotten about. Thanks! ^_^

I didn't say entire hand...

If you have six drawing cards to spam at once in order to draw, you're probably going to win by that point anyway.