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Sorcery1 generic manaBlue mana

The clever bit is the order of operations: you draw two first, then shuffle a card back, so the card you bury is paid out of a hand that has already grown. The net is card parity, not card advantage. You spend one card to cast it, draw two, then pick a card (often one of the two you just drew, or a dead card you were already holding) to return, ending where you started but with the worst card gone. The shuffle is the selection: a flooded land, a removal spell with no target, a situational answer you would rather draw later than hold now goes back into a randomized library. That last word matters. Because the chosen card returns to the library rather than the graveyard, this is the inverse of a self-mill spell; it keeps cards out of the bin, so it has no home in shells that want fuel there. Where it earns its keep is alongside top-deck manipulation: returning a card to a shuffled library resets a stacked top you have outgrown, handing tutors and scry effects a fresh deck to work with. The sorcery-speed restriction locks the effect to your own main phase, so it never becomes an end-step instant. This is smoothing, not value: it does not win games, it keeps a blue deck from drowning in its own dead draws while quietly upgrading the cards it does hold.

See Beyond (pc2)
PC2 · #25common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Draw two cards, then shuffle a card from your hand into your library.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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