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Otherworldly Gaze

InstantBlue mana

Two casts of the same effect, sequenced whenever it suits you. A one-mana instant that bins three cards deep out of the gate; the flashback buys the identical dig for two more, then exiles the shell for good. For a graveyard deck, that arithmetic is the whole appeal: a single card that filters twice and pushes six cards toward the yard across its life, both halves at instant speed so you can hold it until end of turn and dig once you know what you actually need. What Surveil offers over blunter enablers is control over both destinations at once: keep what you want, pitch the rest, all off information you get to see rather than a coin-flip mill. There is no card advantage here, only selection and fuel, which is why it belongs in decks that mine their own discard pile rather than filling it by accident. The flashback is the structural piece that separates this from a one-shot enabler: it deliberately loads two triggers of graveyard-count payoff (delirium, threshold, spell mastery, whatever you are feeding) into a single card, and exiling itself on the second cast keeps the loop from ever running forever the moment a recursion outlet gets stapled on. It never generates a card; it only ever converts cards you already own into shape, twice, on your own timing.

Otherworldly Gaze (dsc)
DSC · #122common
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback 1 generic manaBlue mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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