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Basic Conjuration

Sorcery — Lesson1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The Lesson subtype is the whole hook here: this exists not to be maindecked or built around directly, but to be pulled from outside the game with Learn, which is why its rate looks unusually restrained for what it is. Green has always paid a premium for card selection, digging deep but keeping only creatures, and this leans into that constraint hard: six cards is a wide look, but the filter is strictly creatures, and everything else goes to the bottom in random order rather than staying stacked. That randomization is the quiet tax on the dig; you get depth, not sequencing. The three life stapled on top is the tell that the card is priced as a toolbox option rather than a maindeck staple: it is the kind of small padding that matters when you are fetching a specific threat from a sideboard rather than casting a card you paid a slot for. Structurally it belongs to the family of green tutors that trade breadth for a body requirement, but the Learn access rewrites how you pay for it. A card you never have to draw, only summon when the board state calls for a creature, changes the math on running situational effects: the cost is a sideboard slot and a Learn trigger, not a deck slot and a topdeck. That is the design idea worth sitting with, more than the six-card dig itself.

Basic Conjuration (stx)
STX · #120rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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