About Dichotomancy
Dichotomancy, Sorcery, designed by Steven Belledin first released in Feb, 2007 in the set Planar Chaos. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 1.30.
A deck focused on controlling and tapping down your opponent's nonland permanents would benefit from using Dichotomancy, as it allows you to steal multiple cards from their library. However, the high mana cost and the need to wait for the suspend to resolve might make it too slow and situational compared to other more efficient control cards available in Magic: the Gathering.
Rules
03/19/21
If a spell is suspended, that spell's targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it’s exiled.
03/19/21
If an effect refers to a “suspended card,” that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.
03/19/21
If you can’t cast the card, perhaps because there are no legal targets available, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it’s no longer suspended.
03/19/21
When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend triggers. It doesn’t matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.
03/19/21
You are never forced to activate mana abilities to pay costs, so if there is a mandatory additional mana cost (such as from Thalia, Guardian of Thraben), you can decline to activate mana abilities to pay for it and hence fail to cast the suspended card, leaving it in exile.
03/19/21
You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage’s ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.
06/07/13
A creature cast using suspend will enter the battlefield with haste. It will have haste until another player gains control of it (or, in some rare cases, gains control of the creature spell itself).
06/07/13
Exiling a card with suspend isn’t casting that card. This action doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.
06/07/13
If the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again during the card’s owner’s next upkeep.
06/07/13
If the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) is countered, the card can’t be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it’s no longer suspended.
02/01/07
The cards all enter the battlefield simultaneously. If one of the cards that’s entering the battlefield is an Aura, it must enter the battlefield attached to a permanent already on the battlefield. It can’t enter the battlefield attached to another permanent entering the battlefield via Dichotomancy. If an Aura can’t enter the battlefield this way, it remains in the opponent’s library.
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