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Spire Owl

Creature — Bird1 generic manaBlue mana

A flier with a peek attached, and the peek is deliberately the weaker half of a familiar pair. Where a true scry or top-of-library dig lets you bin the cards you don't want, this only reorders them: every card you look at stays in your deck, you just choose what order to draw them. That choice is the entire point of the design. Sealing the top four into a known sequence is a real edge for a deck that wants to assemble its pieces in order, but it never thins, never digs, never replaces a clunker with anything. The information is genuine; the selection is nil. It reads as an early experiment in handing a small evasive body a knowledge bonus without granting any card advantage, a line Wizards has walked many times since with creatures that scry on entry rather than fix the stack outright. The evasion is doing quiet work alongside the trigger: a one-power body in the air is a chip-damage clock and a chump blocker that survives long enough to make the enter trigger feel like fair payment for the rate. What you get is a creature that does two small honest things at once and pretends to do neither especially well, a modest tempo-and-information piece from an era when reordering your own library still counted as a printable upside.

Spire Owl (usg)
USG · #98common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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