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Rishkar's Expertise

Sorcery4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Power-as-draw is a deal green has always been willing to make, but the terms here are unusually generous: stack your board's biggest creature against the cards drawn, and the conversion rate gets absurd in a way few other green payoffs match. The genre of "draw equal to power" already had its risk built in (a removal spell answering your tallest creature in response shrinks the draw before it resolves), but where Soul's Majesty stopped at the cards, this throws in a free cast on top. That second clause changes the calculus entirely: any spell of mana value 5 or less, dropped from hand without paying for it, which turns the six mana you spent into a card-advantage refuel and a tempo swing at once. The two halves reward different builds (the draw wants a single oversized threat, the free cast wants a heavy curve worth cheating in), and the pull between them is the design's real interest: you rarely get to maximize both off the same board. It is a green ritual of excess, the kind of spell that does nothing when you are behind and ends the game when you are ahead, and the sorcery-speed restriction is the only thing keeping the swing from arriving as an out-of-nowhere blowout.

Rishkar's Expertise (ncc)
NCC · #306rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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