Glimmer of Genius

The card-advantage spell tuned to a mechanic that needed a reason to exist. Energy was a set-bound resource with no native engine to feed it: most cards either spent it or generated trickles too small to matter. This was the rare piece that handed you a real chunk of card advantage and quietly stocked the energy reserve at the same time, making it the workhorse that fueled the artifact-and-counter payoffs without ever asking you to play a bad card to get there. Strip the energy line and you still have a clean draw-two with a scry attached, the kind of instant-speed refuel that control decks have leaned on since Counsel of the Soratami and Compulsive Research mapped out the territory; the energy is upside that costs nothing in deckbuilding. That is the design trick worth noticing: it rewards the energy archetype without punishing decks that ignore the mechanic entirely, so it reads as a fine blue draw spell to one pilot and a free engine-tick to another. The scry-then-draw ordering does the small work that separates a good card-draw spell from a great one, letting you bury a flooded land before you commit to the two cards rather than after. A glue card by construction: serviceable in any blue deck that wants to refill at end of step, indispensable in the one built to hoard the resource it generates.