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Oracle of the Alpha

Creature — Bird Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

The joke is that the Power Nine can only exist in a digital-only format: printing paper copies of Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, and the five Moxen alongside Timetwister is unthinkable, so a card that shuffles all nine into your library gets built where the reprint math is irrelevant. Conjure is the mechanic that makes it possible, generating card objects that never left the code, and this is the design using that tool at its most gleefully maximal. What keeps it from being a pure jackpot is the shuffle: the Power Nine go into your library, not your hand, so the payoff is real but delayed, gated behind draws you cannot sequence and a shuffle that scatters them. The 2/3 flying body and the attack-trigger scry are the honest half of the card, a fair blue tempo creature that would see a look on its own; the enters-the-battlefield line is the fantasy bolted on top. It is a card that could not exist on cardboard, does not need to, and knows it: a love letter to the most famous nine cards in the game, deliverable only in a format that treats card availability as a variable rather than a constraint.

Oracle of the Alpha (mb2)
MB2 · #259uncommon
Pricing
Normal:
Foil: $162.97
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When Oracle of the Alpha enters the battlefield, conjure the Power Nine into your library, then shuffle. Whenever Oracle of the Alpha attacks, scry 1.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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