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Moonlight Bargain

Instant3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Night's Whisper and Sign in Blood ask you to pay life for cards before you see them; this one inverts the order, dealing you five options face up and letting you decide, card by card, which are worth two life to keep. The result is a draw spell with a built-in price ceiling: pay zero and rake all five into the graveyard, pay ten and put the whole stack into your hand, with every gradation in between. That makes it self-tuning in a way flat card draw never is, because the cards you decline still land somewhere useful in a graveyard-fueled shell rather than vanishing. The two-life-per-card meter is what pays for looking at five: you never overpay for cards you do not want, since refusal feeds reanimation, delve, and graveyard recursion instead of wasting the dig. The instant-speed window is the quiet upgrade over its sorcery-speed cousins, letting you refill on an opponent's end step or after a board has settled rather than tapping out on your own turn. It is a black draw effect for a player who has done the arithmetic on their own life total and decided the cards are worth more.

Moonlight Bargain (rav)
RAV · #95rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.46
Foil: $4.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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