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Manifest Dread

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen mana

Original manifest handed you a single blind card off the top and asked you to bet on it: a 2/2 that might be a mana dork you flip cheaply, a bomb you unlock later, or a noncreature card frozen as a vanilla beater until it dies. This refinement adds a mill and, more importantly, a choice, and the choice is the entire design. Two cards get shown; one goes to the board face down, the other goes to the graveyard, and you decide which serves each. That second half is what elevates it past pure card selection: the binned card isn't discarded so much as placed, because green has spent years learning to mine its own yard for delirium, escape, and reanimation. So the same spell that leaves a body on the table also stocks the graveyard with fuel and digs toward what you want, and it does all three without being sharp at any of them. That deliberate mediocrity is the point. It is a two-mana sorcery green midrange can run on curve because it never sits dead: worst case you deploy a warm body and filter a draw; best case you set up a flip, feed a graveyard payoff, and stock the yard in one motion. It rewards decks that want both a creature and a full bin and don't much care which card supplies which, and it does little for decks with nothing worth throwing away.

Manifest Dread (dsk)
DSK · #189common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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