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Elven Farsight

SorceryGreen mana

The interesting move here is the sequencing: scry three, then a reveal. Scry three by itself is deep filtering, letting you bury as many as three cards you do not want and stack the ones you do. What the reveal adds is a way to cash the first card of that reordered stack for actual advantage, but only on a condition you can partly manufacture yourself. If the scry left a creature on top, the sorcery pays for itself; if it left something else, you have still done the smoothing and simply forgo the draw. That structure quietly rewards creature-dense builds without demanding them, because the filtering half of the card is unconditional and the card-draw half is the bonus you earn by curving your library the way you already wanted to. Compared to the older green cantrip-adjacent designs that dug for a land or a creature and stopped, this one lets you see and arrange the horizon before deciding whether the top card is worth revealing, so the decision point comes after the information rather than before it. It is a one-mana selection spell whose ceiling is a genuine one-for-one replacement and whose floor is still meaningful sculpting of the next several draws, which is a better floor than most single-green filtering has offered.

Elven Farsight (ltr)
LTR · #161common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Scry 3, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a creature card is revealed this way, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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