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Peer Past the Veil

Instant2 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

The whole card runs on a bet you have already made by the time you cast it: that your graveyard is a richer resource than your hand. Discarding what you hold is not a drawback tacked on for balance; it is the payment, and the yield scales off card-type diversity in the yard rather than raw count. A single creature, an instant, and a land already turn this into a three-card refill; a self-mill or reanimator shell that has been dumping artifacts, enchantments, and planeswalkers into the bin can push the draw higher than four mana has any right to buy. That inversion is the design idea. Most red-green refuel historically ties itself to attacking or to impulse-drawing off the top, forwarding momentum but never crediting the cards you have discarded, milled, or sacrificed. This one reads the graveyard as a scoreboard, so the payoff climbs precisely as your deck spends resources where aggressive Gruul decks usually spend them. The instant speed does real work: hold it through your opponent's turn, let creatures die and spells resolve into your yard, then cast it on the crackback with X counting the debris of the turn you just survived. It is a refill engine that rewards patience over the top-end draw more common in these colors, built for a deck that treats its graveyard as inventory rather than a dumping ground.

Peer Past the Veil (dsk)
DSK · #226rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Discard your hand. Then draw X cards, where X is the number of card types among cards in your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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