Pot of Integrity

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Pot of Integrity

[Normal Spell]

 

Return any number of cards in your hand, face-up, on the top of your Deck in any order, then draw a number of cards from the bottom of your Deck equal to the number cards you returned +1. If you would shuffle your Deck, you shuffle the Deck, except these face-up cards, then place the face-up cards on top of your Deck (in the same position and order). While you have cards face-up on your Deck, you cannot draw cards, except during your Draw Phase.

 

[spoiler=Flavor Notes]In the imagery of my mind both of these two are combined: http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Pot_of_Benevolence

+ http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Pot_of_Generosity

 

In the same way that Pot of Duality is Pot of Greed and Pot of Generosity bound together.

 

[Dova]

"If you would shuffle your Deck, you keep the cards these face-up cards on top of your Deck even after shuffling."

 

#hastyerratumnoted

Don't really see the Benevolence here, but an interesting card nonetheless. Pretty interesting for restocking hands, as it allows you to ditch your late-game card(s) in favour of (hopefully) better ones from elsewhere in your Deck. Doesn't plus outside of that, so not something I'd play without a specific interaction, but since none comes to mind...RIP.

[Phelphor, of the Deep]

"If you would shuffle your Deck, you keep the cards these face-up cards on top of your Deck even after shuffling."

 

#hastyerratumnoted

 

Don't really see the Benevolence here, but an interesting card nonetheless. Pretty interesting for restocking hands, as it allows you to ditch your late-game card(s) in favour of (hopefully) better ones from elsewhere in your Deck. Doesn't plus outside of that, so not something I'd play without a specific interaction, but since none comes to mind...RIP.

Similar to convulsion of nature.

 

you can combo this card with oath of the archfiend

 

and work in certain archetypes like sylvan. makes things easier before you start excavating.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

"If you would shuffle your Deck, you keep the cards these face-up cards on top of your Deck even after shuffling."

 

#hastyerratumnoted

 

Don't really see the Benevolence here, but an interesting card nonetheless. Pretty interesting for restocking hands, as it allows you to ditch your late-game card(s) in favour of (hopefully) better ones from elsewhere in your Deck. Doesn't plus outside of that, so not something I'd play without a specific interaction, but since none comes to mind...RIP.

D'oh! Damnit!

 

Yeah.... I make these mistakes a lot. I get so excited when I have an idea that I trip on my own wording sometimes. XD

 

Hmmm. Yeah I haven't considered much of what this card would do aside from maybe stacking the Seventh One or stacking for the sake of easy pluses from Archfiend's Oath. I just winged this one honestly.

 

Edit: Wasn't expecting to get ninja'd there on Archfiend's Oath. XD And man I completely forgot about Sylvan... This thing would be beastly in that Deck considering you can fix the bottom of your Deck on occasions.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Nothing wrong with winging stuff; Casual does allow the leeway for that.

 

But yeah, card's nice enough to let you get rid of stuff you don't need at the moment and hopefully draw something you can use in the current situation. Thing with Archfiend's Oath / Convulsion aside (uh, who's still running them?), that's probably it. As for the errata, you do need to specify that they remain face-up (though should double check if stuff like Paracide or w/e keeps itself face-up in the Deck also notes this in recent wording or implies).

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Nothing wrong with winging stuff; Casual does allow the leeway for that.

 

But yeah, card's nice enough to let you get rid of stuff you don't need at the moment and hopefully draw something you can use in the current situation. Thing with Archfiend's Oath / Convulsion aside (uh, who's still running them?), that's probably it. As for the errata, you do need to specify that they remain face-up (though should double check if stuff like Paracide or w/e keeps itself face-up in the Deck also notes this in recent wording or implies).

Hmmm... Yeah I think I might have means of specification there.

 

What if it is this?

 

"If you would shuffle your Deck, you keep these face-up cards on top of your Deck even after shuffling (in the same position and order)."

 

Comprehensible and possibly works with PSCT?

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Nowadays, I wouldn't harp on whether the wording is 100% accurate, though from Dova's fix, the cards just have to remain face-up and not necessarily in the same order that you placed them at the top. Makes it easier to use the card when stuff gets shuffled, as it'd be somewhat difficult to retain their precise order when shuffling (time notwithstanding).

 

It's readable though.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Nowadays, I wouldn't harp on whether the wording is 100% accurate, though from Dova's fix, the cards just have to remain face-up and not necessarily in the same order that you placed them at the top. Makes it easier to use the card when stuff gets shuffled, as it'd be somewhat difficult to retain their precise order when shuffling (time notwithstanding).

 

It's readable though.

Well I my thinking is that if one notes that they have to retain the same order, they simply keep those face-up cards in the same order and shuffle the rest of the Deck... Though in hindsight I probably could word it so people wouldn't jump through hoops to shuffle the face-up cards until they got that exact order (yeah that would be counter-intuitive and dumb). I will work on that one sentence a little more. XD

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Probably better if you modify the effect so that the cards still remain face-up when you shuffle the Deck at any given time, but not required to keep them in same position. 

 

(I likely thought Dova was making a PSCT addition as opposed to an accidental typo.)

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Probably better if you modify the effect so that the cards still remain face-up when you shuffle the Deck at any given time, but not required to keep them in same position. 

 

(I likely thought Dova was making a PSCT addition as opposed to an accidental typo.)

Yeah it was... A fix on my accidental text echolalia.

 

Here is a wording update that maybe an eyesore:

 

"If you would shuffle your Deck, you shuffle the Deck, except these face-up cards, then place the face-up cards on top of your Deck in the same position and order."

[Azuriena]

There is little reason not to run 3 in every Deck for the free filtering. Take out the worst cards in your hand and replace them with good ones.

 

If you open multiple, return the extra copies and put them on the bottom of the face-up stack. You're guaranteed to not draw them until the HOPT expires. And you're guaranteed to not draw any other copies from the face-down Deck either.

 

It does not impede your searching or the drawing from further uses of the card.

 

It is a mediocre topdeck though as with all Mallet/Trade-In variants.

[Darj]

IMO this is too good, and wouldn't want this around anytime soon.

As Azuriena points out, you could run 3 in every deck with little problems if you are aiming for deck thinning, and I dare say is practically a better Duality. Not to mention that it is kind of a generic version of cards like Performapal Recasting, and outclassing cards like this is not cool IMO.

[Sleepy]

Ideas I have for the card if there would be any potential problems with it, and it WOULD be the best Mulligan in the game, Deck thinning 1, choosing what you put back without fear of re-drawing them (outside copies), and no restrictions other than the hard OPT clause.

 

Maybe instead of the hard OPT clause, have it so that you cannot activate "Pot of Integrity" while any of the cards returned this way are still face-up on your Deck. That means that regular decks offset their free mulligan with the fact they now gotta keep drawing those cards. While decks dedicated to excavations can pull them out of the way faster via Sylvans, LS milling, Archfiend Oath, Gishiki effects returning Assault Modes, deck floaters (Tengu, Malicious, etc.), etc.

 

Maybe even give it a clause like "face-up cards placed on the deck this way cannot be drawn by card effects" so your Desires, and etc. cannot speed them up. You gotta search, excavate, or mill to get rid of them.

 

I was thinking of something else but I forgot what I was gonna say xD
Whelp.

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Ideas I have for the card if there would be any potential problems with it, and it WOULD be the best Mulligan in the game, Deck thinning 1, choosing what you put back without fear of re-drawing them (outside copies), and no restrictions other than the hard OPT clause.

 

Maybe instead of the hard OPT clause, have it so that you cannot activate "Pot of Integrity" while any of the cards returned this way are still face-up on your Deck. That means that regular decks offset their free mulligan with the fact they now gotta keep drawing those cards. While decks dedicated to excavations can pull them out of the way faster via Sylvans, LS milling, Archfiend Oath, Gishiki effects returning Assault Modes, deck floaters (Tengu, Malicious, etc.), etc.

 

Maybe even give it a clause like "face-up cards placed on the deck this way cannot be drawn by card effects" so your Desires, and etc. cannot speed them up. You gotta search, excavate, or mill to get rid of them.

 

I was thinking of something else but I forgot what I was gonna say xD

Whelp.

Yeah! Thank you, Sleepy! These are good suggestions. I was just about to let this card fall under my "learned hopelessness" categories and give up on the idea altogether because honestly I was stumped... XD I will definitely implement those things.It will be the most restriction heavy card I've made, but it will have to do to make it less overpowered.