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Heart of a Duelist

Enchantment1 generic manaBlue mana

"Anywhere in your library" takes a rule so foundational that no card had ever bothered to write it down and quietly deletes it. Every draw effect in the game's history has meant "from the top," because the top is where drawing happens; the parenthetical here spells out that the top is now optional, that you may reach into the middle or the bottom of your library and pull whatever card you please, as long as you do it blind. That last constraint is the load-bearing part: you can grab any card you want, but you cannot look first, so the "freedom" resolves into picking a face-down slot and hoping. It reads as a strictly-better draw until you notice the reordering ban makes it functionally the same shuffle-and-pray as drawing off the top, only with more ceremony and a fresh chance to whiff on a card you knew was down there. The enters-the-battlefield draw grounds it in a real (if minor) effect, so the enchantment does something on the turn it lands regardless of whether anyone bothers with the anywhere clause. Call it design as comedy about the game's own vocabulary: a card that stress-tests the difference between "draw a card" and "draw the card you want," and finds that the difference is mostly the reordering line nobody thought to protect.

Heart of a Duelist (mb2)
MB2 · #530rare
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Normal: $0.34
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Oracle Text

Rules text

You may draw cards from anywhere in your library. (You don't get to look at them or reorder them while doing so.) When Heart of a Duelist enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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