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Instant1 generic manaBlue mana

The card impact expression ties selection quality to lands in play, which is a quiet reversal of how card advantage usually gets priced in blue. A dig spell normally pays a flat depth regardless of board state: look at three, take one, and it does the same thing on turn two as on turn ten. Here the depth scales with the least glamorous resource you already have on the table, so a spell that peeks at two cards early becomes a genuine deep dig once the manabase matures, without ever asking for a different card. That makes the kicker do interesting work rather than just doubling a number. Unkicked, it is a smoothing tool that trades one card for one better card. Kicked, it becomes card advantage proper, keeping two of what it sees and rewarding you for holding the extra mana until the payoff is worth it. The rest going to the bottom in random order, rather than staying stacked, means it is a selection spell and not a Brainstorm-style shuffle-fix; you do not get to bury a specific dead card in a known spot. The design lives in that tension between wanting lands for depth and wanting spells to spend the depth on, and it repays a deck built to keep drawing land drops long after other blue draw spells have gone flat.

Consult the Star Charts (eoe)
EOE · #325rare
Pricing
Normal: $5.90
Foil: $8.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

Kicker 1 generic manaBlue mana (You may pay an additional 1 generic manaBlue mana as you cast this spell.) Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand. If this spell was kicked, put two of those cards into your hand instead. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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