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Field of Dreams

World EnchantmentBlue mana

The world enchantment template is what makes this card legible: only one can exist on the battlefield at a time, and the next world enchantment to resolve (cast by either player) replaces it. That mechanic was Wizards' early answer to a question the design team has wrestled with ever since, which is how to put global information-warping effects into the game without letting them stack into incoherent board states. Revealing the top of every library is a smaller version of the same problem Future Sight and Magus of the Future would later solve at higher rates and with single-player scope: shared, symmetric information that rewards the player who built around it. Here the symmetry is total, the cost is a single blue, and the payoff is whatever edge you can wring from knowing both top cards. That tends to favor the deck with more top-of-library manipulation (Brainstorm effects, scry, Sensei's Divining Top) and the deck with cheaper reactive spells, since the defender always knows what is coming. The world supertype itself is largely a dead letter in modern design; cards like this are the reason it existed, and the reason it was quietly retired as a concept worth pushing. What remains is a one-mana curiosity from a period when Magic was still negotiating which kinds of shared-state effects the game could tolerate at all.

Field of Dreams (pz2)
PZ2 · #65831rare
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Normal: $132.93
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.
Legalities

Format Status

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