Very underrated card, especially early on in the game, accelerates your darwing quite nicely.
Silverware
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Concentrate makes this card useless. Though to be fair I have seen worse drawing cards.
Ctoaun14
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
The trick is to play it when no one's paying attention.
Sorry, just had to say that.
Lord_Ascapelion
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Rhystic cards are pretty bad, and this is among the worst, thanks to Concentrate.
achilleselbow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
If this were an instant, it could still see some use despite Concentrate. But yea, it's strictly worse. Look at the rating for Rhystic Study before making that kind of statement though.
Lyoncet
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm trying to think of a reason to use this card since Concentrate is so much more useful. The only thing I can think of is using it in a dredge deck as a 6 CMC (you pay the extra 2) way of getting the right cards into your graveyard without losing card advantage. That's all I've got though.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Play this in a deck that does not mind discarding. Even if opponent has untapped mana its not killing you.
TheWaddleDeeKing
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would have been good if it were a one or two drop. As a four drop, it just costs too much to be useful.
Earthdawn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You don't have to discard the cards that you drew with this spell if they pay 2. Bait them into tapping out and resolve the spell you really wanted to play :)
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I really agree with Ctoaun, though! XD Idc If he's joking, THIS one does seem worth trying to pull something doofy like that. :)
It's never going to work at Worlds, but all kinds of derpy cards are so much more playable against.....umm....opponents that are bad at Magic xP
Gandlodder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I want to see the rhystic mechanic make a comeback, albeit with more of the damned-if-you-do, really-damned-if-you-don't mechanics like the one on Rhystic Study. If this were the case, however, I think this card would make a great reprint... colorshifted to red. With similar effects like Burning Inquiry, Wild Guess, and Faithless Looting that have been printed recently, this would fit perfectly into the red slot of a new cycle of rhystic spells.
The only thing good about this card is how the flavor text sort of breaks the fourth wall. Apparently WotC didn't learn that punisher cards that are actually Concentrate with a drawback aren't very good, because they printed Distant Memories later.
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Sorry, just had to say that.
Look at the rating for Rhystic Study before making that kind of statement though.
It's never going to work at Worlds, but all kinds of derpy cards are so much more playable against.....umm....opponents that are bad at Magic xP
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