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Reed Richards, Smartest Man

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Hero5 generic manaBlue mana

Most card-advantage engines turn one action into a bigger pile of cards; this one does too, but it picks a very specific action to amplify. The clause is carefully written to close the obvious loopholes: it fires on the first draw each turn other than the card you draw for your draw step, so the card you naturally get for the turn stays a single card while the first extra draw (a cantrip, an opponent's Windfall, any spell's "draw a card") balloons into four. That distinction between draw steps and everything else is the entire engineering job. It rewards proactive card-drawing without simply making your untap-upkeep-draw four times as fast, which would be a far more oppressive card. Paired with the no-maximum-hand-size line, it assumes a build that wants to hold and reload rather than dump its grip, switching off the graveyard's usual pressure valve (discard to hand size) altogether. The 2/4 with reach is almost apologetic by comparison: a body meant to survive on the ground and in the air long enough for the engine to matter, not to end games on its own. The load-bearing idea is retroactive: your first incidental "draw a card" each turn stops being a cantrip and becomes a four-card refill, so a pile of small draw effects quietly reweights into a pile of hand-filling ones without changing a single other card.

Reed Richards, Smartest Man (msc)
MSC · #636rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.78
Foil: $3.71
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach You have no maximum hand size. The first time you would draw a card each turn except the first card you draw during each of your draw steps, you draw four cards instead.
Legalities

Format Status

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