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Very nice milling card.

Eh, this is alright.

It mills 5 cards for one drop. Yay.

Red gets Bolt.
Blue gets this.
Perfectly fair!
...
*sob*

Ideal card for mill decks.

I don't understand why the rating is so low. This is a perfect card for mill decks, for four blue mana you can take out a third of the deck (probably more, since four of them would mill for twenty and most people would be down to a lot less by the time you could play all four).

Funny that it's one mana for 5 cards COMMON, when Glimpse the unthinkable is 2 mana 10 cards RARE

Whenever I cast Tome Scour I shout, "I HAVE THE SCOURRRRRRR!" because I'm cool like He-Man.

Yeah, or maybe milling can be more like a keyword, and Jace Beleren would say "Target player has to Mill 20".

Tome Scour + Djinn Illuminatus = epic win!

You guys dont forget Belltower Sphinx , it also works good in mill decks.
Wizards could make an ability on cards called: Mill 5 or something like that.

I first read Time scour instead of tome scour, dont ask me why...

Great card for cheap a price. Arachibutyrophobia, nice combo! Pair this up with Mind Funeral!!!!!

Hmm.
Is it just me, or is milling becoming too easy, and practically the only way for a blue deck to win?

Millers, you just found your favorite common.

My friends all mispronounce this card's name as "Tomb Scour". I try to correct them, they laugh in my face.

There are such BETTER cards to put in your mill decks people.. 5 cards is really not much of anything at all. It's a dead draw mostly compared to what else you COULD be drawing.

tome scour for milling is like lightning bolt for burn

This, Hedron Crab, Traumatize, and Archive Trap, surrounded by Propagandas...

A decent Mill card, but I've found that my mill deck fairs better with cheap control cards such as Duress and Negate in the early game, and cards like Nemesis of Reason, Mind Funeral and Archive Trap to deal with the rest of their deck. Its a decent card, but they will only rarely mill your opponent to death, and a blue-black mill deck benefits more from early threat removal while you get your finishers out.

Is this card for milling? REALLY!?

my mill deck is based around tome scour , glimpse the unthinkable and Mesmeric orb with the only creature being Hedron crab and it only loses to my friends elf deck when he doesn't draw Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

This card and Millstone are very accurate indicators if the person playing them is trying to win a game or is just trying to do cool stuff. However, occasionally a person playing bad mill* would testify under oath that (s)he is trying to win. I will fix that in this post.

*Bad Mill- as in "a bad milling strategy". Tome Scour is not inherently a bad card. It does get used very badly however.

There is a common illusion that if the top handful of cards of someone's library were to be put in their graveyard, then they "lost" those cards- just in the same way as if they had those cards in their hand and were forced to discard them. Example:

Player A: "Player B, I gonna Tome Scour you."
Player B: "Oh NO!! (*sigh*) Alright, here goes. (Takes a deep breath and SLOWLY takes the top card of the top of his library) DAMMIT!! You got a Mountain!! I needed that!! (Flips second card slowly) DAMMIT!! You got another Mountain!! I needed those!! (Repeats process three more times- exclaiming "DAMMIT" followed by card X, ..except the last card...) Ok, last one.... AARRRRGGGG!!! FRIGGIN' A!!! You got my (singleton mythic rare)!!!!"
(This entire tome scour process took like a minute and a half.)

If you can identify with Player B's agony, please read on very carefully. When was the last time you won a game? At that time, did you have any cards left in your library? Did the cards left in your library have anything to do with you winning that game? By now, I have left behind a few smart-as$es who's game winning scenarios are a special case (like killing someone with Sunforger's unequip ability or something). Hopefully, some of you may be prompted to think: Perhaps randomly having cards go from the top of the library to the graveyard is merely another example of that over-bearing celestial phenomenon (called shuffling your library) at work- the same phenomenon that causes players to be 'mana screwed' because for some odd reason they didn't draw into anymore land than what they had in their opening hand.

"Oh! But wait!" you say, "If my Chandra Ablaze goes into the graveyard, I can't get her back!"
...and? She could have been sitting down there with the bottom three cards of your library.
But if she is in the graveyard, ALL HOPE of getting to play her is LOST! There would be no chance of drawing into a card that's in your graveyard!
...and?
That makes me FEEL BAD!!
ARGH! Well, friggin-A! It makes me 'feel bad' hearing that (which I might as well have from certain players).

There are decks out there that don't want to be milled by even one card. Those decks have lots of cards search/filtering and very few cards that allow them to win/not lose. However, for most decks, it doesn't matter what cards are left in their library when they kill you (on a side note, did you know that it also doesn't matter what life total a player is at when they kill you?).

So, in the same manner as poison counters, if you're going to mill someone to death (err... madness, I mean), try to do it thoroughly. (hint: they will have at least 52 cards in their library) (hint: In most cases, you can't guarantee that you will draw into every copy of every important spell in your library)

I miss this guy ;~;

Gets ya 6/7 of the way to Threshold.

Hey, look, all of the comments in the Recent Comments section are in italics for some reason.