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A-Mentor's Guidance

Sorcery1 generic manaBlue mana

The Arena rebalance prefix marks this as a digital-only revision, and the change it makes is almost invisible until you check the mana cost: a plain cantrip that copies itself the moment you cast it, provided the board already houses the right kind of caster. The condition is doing the interesting work. Rather than gate the copy behind a color or a mana threshold, it keys off a wide slice of creature types (Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, Wizard) plus any planeswalker, which turns a stock scry-and-draw into a payoff card for a deck built out of spellcasters. The copy happens on cast, before the original resolves, so both halves scry and draw independently: two cards deep, two looks at the top, for the price of a two-mana sorcery and a body that was probably on the battlefield for other reasons. What balances it is that the condition is entirely front-loaded; if the enabler dies or was never there, you are left with a below-rate cantrip and no recourse, because nothing about the spell rewards you for building toward the trigger after the fact. It is a design that asks the deck, not the card, to carry the weight, and it only looks generous when the rest of the shell has already answered the question.

A-Mentor's Guidance (stx)
STX · #A-46uncommon
Oracle Text

Rules text

When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard. Scry 1, then draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
N/A
Vintage
N/A
Commander
N/A
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
N/A
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
N/A
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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