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Pearl of Wisdom

Sorcery2 generic manaBlue mana

Divination set the durable common baseline for double-draw at sorcery speed: three mana, two cards, no upside. This one holds that floor and grafts on a discount tied to a single creature type, shaving a mana whenever you control an Otter. Live, that clause turns a three-mana refill into a two-mana one, which changes how much of a turn the card asks for and how comfortably it stacks alongside a second spell. The design is a study in gating card advantage behind a build-around identity: when the Otter clause is dead, it is a plain generic draw spell; when it is live, it becomes a genuine payoff, so the card rewards committing to the tribe without punishing decks that miss. That asymmetry is deliberate. A flat two-mana Divination would warp any blue deck that wanted it; fencing the efficient rate behind an Otter keeps the cheap version confined to the decks meant to support it, while everyone else gets the honest three-mana price. It is a small lever, but it does the exact thing tribal payoffs are supposed to do: make a fair effect meaningfully better only inside the shell that earns it.

Pearl of Wisdom (blb)
BLB · #64common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

This spell costs 1 generic mana less to cast if you control an Otter. Draw two cards.
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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