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Discover the Impossible

Instant2 generic manaBlue mana

The escape hatch is what separates this from the run of impulse-draw effects. Most of them hand you the exiled card and stop; this one bolts on a conditional free cast, but only for the narrowest possible payload: an instant of mana value two or less. That ceiling is doing double duty. It keeps the free-spell mode honest (no chaining into an expensive counter or a heavy bounce), and it quietly favors a deck already stocked with cheap reactive spells over one that treats the free cast as a lucky bonus. Dig five, exile one, and when the exiled card is a Spell Pierce or an Opt-tier instant, you cast it for nothing at instant speed; when it is anything else, it lands in hand. The four cards you passed over go to the bottom in a random order, which is the price of the selection: no thinning, and good cards buried where you cannot reach them. The timing is where the card earns its keep. Cast on the opponent's turn, it can convert found interaction into an immediate response, spending their tempo window instead of your own. That rewards a spell-dense build where the exiled card is often something you want to fire back right away, collapsing two decisions (which card, cast it now) into a single instant-speed beat.

Discover the Impossible (neo)
NEO · #50uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Look at the top five cards of your library. Exile one of them face down and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if it's an instant spell with mana value 2 or less. If you don't, put that card into your hand.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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