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Madame Web, Clairvoyant

Legendary Creature — Mutant Advisor4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Top-of-library card advantage engines usually gate the payoff behind a specific card type: Future Sight let you cast anything, Vizier of the Menagerie only creatures, Melek only instants and sorceries. This one carves out a hybrid lane, opening the top of your deck to Spider spells and to noncreature spells alike, which means the tribal shell and the spellslinger shell are both being fed from the same hidden card. The design tension is that the two halves compete for the same slot: every Spider you draw off the top is a noncreature spell you didn't, and the mill trigger on attack is what keeps the queue moving so the good half surfaces. That mill is doing quiet double work. It advances the top-card engine by one, and it self-mills value into a graveyard the color is well suited to reuse, so a card you couldn't cast from the top is not simply discarded but relocated to a zone blue and its allies can exploit. Persistent top-of-library visibility (permanent, not a one-shot scry) is the throughline: you are never guessing what the next mill will bury or what the next attack will unlock. The 4/4 body is incidental; the reason to run this is the information layer it bolts onto a deck that wants to know, and act on, what comes next.

Madame Web, Clairvoyant (om1)
OM1 · #36uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast Spider spells and noncreature spells from the top of your library. Whenever you attack, you may mill a card. (You may put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

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