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Uncharted Voyage

Instant3 generic manaBlue mana

Tempo dressed up as a common's worth of card selection. Putting a creature onto the top of its owner's library is the older, meaner cousin of a plain return-to-hand effect: the opponent doesn't merely recast the creature, they have to draw it again first, spending a full draw step to un-do the setback. What limits the play is the owner's choice of top or bottom, so the wall it puts up is only as tall as the card underneath: bury a just-resolved bomb and they will almost always eat the redraw off the top; do it to a spent body and they will happily bin it to the bottom. That built-in escape hatch is why the surveil 1 matters. It smooths your next draw while you're already holding up instant-speed interaction, so a one-for-zero tempo swing at least keeps your own gears turning; the turn you spend it is never entirely dead. This design lineage runs through effects like Boomerang and Griptide, tuned here to a color and a slot that wants interaction it can bundle with card selection. Temporary answers always feel thin in a vacuum, and the surveil is the concession that acknowledges it: a bounce spell that also digs, pointed at a deck built to churn through instants rather than a pure control shell.

Uncharted Voyage (fdn)
FDN · #53common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Legalities

Format Status

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