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Glimpse the Core

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

The Forest-fetch mode is the plainest kind of green ramp: a Rampant Growth variant that puts a basic Forest onto the battlefield tapped, restricted narrowly enough that it only feeds a green mana base and never smooths out a splash of another color. That half is deliberately unglamorous. The design lives in the second mode, which returns a Cave card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, and that clause pays off only in a deck built to sacrifice and recur its lands. The modal split governs when each line is live: with an empty graveyard the card can only ramp, but once a Cave has died or been fed to a sacrifice effect, the reanimation becomes the stronger read, letting you rebuy a utility land and its enters-tapped payoff for two mana. Green has always been the color that reaches back into its own graveyard for permanents (Regrowth and Eternal Witness for spells, Splendid Reclamation for lands), so pointing a recursion mode at the Cave subtype is a natural extension of that identity rather than a new axis. The limiting factor is that it is a one-shot sorcery, not an engine; the recursion happens once per copy, and any value loop depends on the Caves themselves cycling back to the graveyard through other means. Without a Cave to target, you have paid for a ramp spell and left the interesting half of the card unused.

Glimpse the Core (lci)
LCI · #186uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.37
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. • Return target Cave card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
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
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