Serum Powder

djww19 · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 396

Serum Powder
Artifact - 3
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Any time you could take a mulligan and serum powder is in your hand, you may remove your hand from the game, then draw that many cards. (You can do this in addition to taking mulligans)

A couple questions:
Say I have 2 in my opening hand of 7. Do I draw 14 or 7 when I RFG my hand?

Is there any way to stack a 13 card draw off the opening hand since you can remove your hand in addition to taking the mulligan?

Thanks guys.

Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:

theres no way ud be able to draw 14 cards.. u might can stack them both but then one would resolve and u draw 7 cards then the other would resolve and u remove ur hand and draw 7 again.. but no way could u draw 14... but im not a judge.. im sure someone will tell u exactly how it works..

-IamDanny

Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

I have been wondering about that card since it came out but never did anything about it because it was never really played. Serum Powder says:

Any time you could mulligan and Serum Powder is in your hand, you may remove your hand from the game, then draw that many cards.(You can do this in addition to taking mulligans.)

That last part in parentheses is confusing to me because of the part about addition to taking mulligans. That to me means I remove my hand draw that many and then draw for my mulligan being one less than what I drew for Serum Powder's ability. So if you draw an opening hand of 7 cards and Serum Powder is in your hand you remove it to draw a total of 13 cards. (7 for the Serum Powder and 6 for the mulligan which equals 13.)

Amoeba-

niknight · Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 144

With Serum Powder, you either mulligan OR use Powder's effect. If you have multiple powders in your hand, you cannot just draw 13, since when you use the first you wind up removing the other from the game (so you won't be able to use it).

Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:50 am Post subject:

Zheaman · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 9

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TheDarkMan · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 21

With two in your hand, you can either mulligan down to n-1 cards, or remove your hand from the game and draw n cards. Even though you have two in your hand, you can only remove your hand from the game once, and so you would be unable to draw twice as many cards.

You can't draw an insane amount of cards for the first turn using Serum Powder. If you could, a) someone would have noticed it was that powerful, and b) it would have been errata'ed or banned. Especially back in Mirrodin days where you could play your whole hand on turn 1 by using affinity.

Removing your hand does not count as a mulligan, so if you remove 7 cards in your hand (at least one being the Serum Powder), you'll draw 7 as a replacement hand. Then you can mulligan if you want to, and draw 6.

djww19 · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 396

Allright. Thanks for the help guys. I really appreciate it.