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Voracious Tome-Skimmer

Creature — Faerie RogueBlue or Black manaBlue or Black manaBlue or Black mana

Flying on a 2/3 keeps this Faerie relevant in the air, but the body is the least interesting thing about it. The engine only fires on spells cast during an opponent's turn, which quietly rewrites what belongs in the deck around it: instants, flash creatures, counters, removal held up rather than jammed, and nothing that begs to be cast on your own turn at sorcery speed. Every reactive play you were going to make anyway now arrives stapled to a life-for-a-card exchange, converting a control shell's slow accumulation of advantage into something that generates tempo and cards on the same axis. The life payment is the throttle, optional and one at a time, but it stacks across a long game, so a durable draw has to weigh each card against the clock its own life total is on. The hybrid cost widens the doors: the same creature slots into a mono-blue tempo build or a mono-black attrition one without changing the shell's appetite for cheap interaction and open windows. What it demands is a reordering of the turn cycle. The incentive is no longer to do the most on your turn, but to bank just enough mana to answer on the other one, and be rewarded for the discipline of holding priority.

Voracious Tome-Skimmer (ecl)
ECL · #250uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.37
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may pay 1 life. If you do, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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