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Silver Scrutiny

SorceryX generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Scaling blue card draw has almost always been a sorcery, from Braingeyser onward, because letting a player refuel their whole hand at instant speed is genuinely dangerous. This design finds a way to hand out flash without handing out the blowout: the flash clause holds only while X is 3 or less. Draw one, two, or three and you get the reactive window a tempo-control deck actually wants, holding up mana and refilling on the opponent's end step. Push X to four or more and the timing collapses back to sorcery speed, a hand-refill you have to commit to on your own turn with no protection behind it. The threshold does the balancing work: it rewards the incremental, mana-efficient draw while shutting off the six-cards-at-instant-speed line that would make the card oppressive. What makes the construction elegant is that timing and payoff scale against each other. The more cards you want, the less freedom you have about when to want them. The card is fair precisely because its most powerful mode is also its least flexible.

Silver Scrutiny (prm)
PRM · #103418rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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