let's put fun back into the game with this card :)
ZEvilMustache
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(13 votes)
He's the Cone of Scry
Smoked_Peasant
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I wonder if he works in practice...
Zulp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That's what I call card filtering.
altf4ninja
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
works well with flicker effects like mistmeadow witch or flickerform i think
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Worm fans rejoice. Add this to your worm Tribal deck.
GracefulInferno
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm thinking W/U EDH decks will love this guy. Having this much control over your draw in that format is invaluable, especially with all of the flicker effects that blue and white have to offer (I'm looking at you, Venser.)
CuriousThing
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Built for EDH, but (casual) combo decks love this guy to accelerate their clocks. When you only have 45 cards left in your deck, 6 cards always seems to find you that missing piece to your infinite engine. But in competitve legacy, of course, you've already lost at that point. 4/5
TheLionsMane
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This guy + Sunken Hope absolutely wins you the game. While your enemies are being progressively slowed down, you can be choosing every single card you get. For the rest of the game. Fun times.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Annelid? To me it looks more like a Platyhelminth such as a Taenia (that's a tapeworm).
Look at the first card. Want to keep it on top? Put it on top of library. Look at the second two cards. You already know you're keeping one of them, so you're really only looking at 1 more card. Put it on top and your next scry only lets you see one last card, effectively making this a scry 3. Put the second card on the bottom though and you'll see two additional cards.
So then this becomes the problem: for four mana, you're getting either: look at the top three cards of your library and put them back in any order, or put the top six cards of your library on the bottom, with variations in between. Unfortunately, those variations are directly influenced by previous choices, with each card being kept on top making the next scry less effective. For instance, the only way to look at six cards is to put the cards from the first two scrys on the bottom. If you keep even one card from either the first or second scry, you'll only be able to dig a maximum of four cards deep.
There are four practical ways to look at 6 total cards, three to look at 5 cards, five to look at 4 cards, and two to look at 3 cards. To look at six different cards you need to put the first three cards you see from the first two cards on the bottom. Now you have 3 new cards to scry.
To look at five cards, you need to put the first card on the bottom, then keep only one of the second scry. This of course means that you'll only be seeing two new cards in the third scry, because one of them you saw in the second scry. So effectively you saw three cards: you put two on the bottom, kept one, and now you have two more to look at.
To look at only four cards, you can keep the first card and keep one card of the second scrys, or put the first card on the bottom and keep both cards from the second scry. Either one of these options will cause you to see only four different cards.
If you choose to keep both the first card and the second different card from the second scry, you'll only see 3 different cards.
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U: Scry 1, Scry 2, Scry 3?
Yes please.
So then this becomes the problem: for four mana, you're getting either: look at the top three cards of your library and put them back in any order, or put the top six cards of your library on the bottom, with variations in between. Unfortunately, those variations are directly influenced by previous choices, with each card being kept on top making the next scry less effective. For instance, the only way to look at six cards is to put the cards from the first two scrys on the bottom. If you keep even one card from either the first or second scry, you'll only be able to dig a maximum of four cards deep.
There are four practical ways to look at 6 total cards, three to look at 5 cards, five to look at 4 cards, and two to look at 3 cards. To look at six different cards you need to put the first three cards you see from the first two cards on the bottom. Now you have 3 new cards to scry.
To look at five cards, you need to put the first card on the bottom, then keep only one of the second scry. This of course means that you'll only be seeing two new cards in the third scry, because one of them you saw in the second scry. So effectively you saw three cards: you put two on the bottom, kept one, and now you have two more to look at.
To look at only four cards, you can keep the first card and keep one card of the second scrys, or put the first card on the bottom and keep both cards from the second scry. Either one of these options will cause you to see only four different cards.
If you choose to keep both the first card and the second different card from the second scry, you'll only see 3 different cards.