Anticipated Birth

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Leyline of Anticipation

Enchantment

Magic 2011

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If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

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Birthing Pod

Artifact

New Phyrexia

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can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Date Posted: Tue Jul/12/11 at 12:26 pm

Squillis

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Joined: 20-Nov-08

With Leyline of Anticipation and Birthing Pod on the board, you can sac any creature at 'instant speed', allowing you to dodge almost all removal spells. If they try to kill your guy, you just upgrade him in response.

Date Posted: Tue Jul/12/11 at 12:48pm

Turbine

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Joined: 26-Oct-09

Leyline only affects casting spells, not activating abilities.

Date Posted: Tue Jul/12/11 at 1:14pm

Torto

Posts: 148
Joined: 25-Jun-11

If the Birthing Pod hadn´t the text 'Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery', you could use your idea without Leyline, but as Turbine said, Leyline text says that you can CAST spells, not USE abilities. But the IDEA that you tried to pass is awesome: your creatures will be protected from destroys and other abilities. Good job.

[Edited by Torto on 12/Jul/11 at 1:16PM]

Date Posted: Tue Jul/12/11 at 1:27pm

Squillis

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Joined: 20-Nov-08

307.5. If a spell, ability, or effect states that a player can do something only “any time he or she could
cast a sorcery,” it means only that the player must have priority, it must be during the main phase of
his or her turn, and the stack must be empty. The player doesn’t need to have a sorcery he or she
could actually cast. Effects that would prevent that player from casting a spell or casting a sorcery
don’t affect the player’s capability to perform that action (unless the action is actually casting a
spell or casting a sorcery).

shoulda checked up on the CR before I posted.

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