This is very good for a common. Useful in Peasant format. I wish it could find Sorcery spells also.
A3Kitsune
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Got restricted in Vintage. Two mana for a search spell that puts the card in your hand is excellent (except for land search, where two mana is standard).
RafiqTheMiststalker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
In homelands?
Cyberium
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
A great card from a crappy set. Homeland is an expansion famous for bad cards and rare gems. Rumor is that Wizards almost stopped making Magic after this expansion went released because it's so bad.
NeverendingDream
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
best card in Homelands
HippyRei
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
This is the best card in Homelands, and it's a common card...
jbruso
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(6 votes)
There's more good cards in Homelands than people give credit for - I always hear people say how several different cards are "the only good card in Homelands"
Tiggurix
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
I agree, jbruso. If you actually take a look, you'll find that the majority of cards in Homelands are actually somewhat playable. I believe there are more horrendously bad cards in Kamigawa block than Homelands, and I hope they will release a set or two to revisit the story and up the power level a little.
EpicBroccoli
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
This is actually the highest rated card in Homelands.
tavaritz
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Yes this is and will be, because it's so broken that it's banned in one format and restricted in another.
JFM2796
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
This is the single highest rated card in Homelands.
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Proving once again that no matter how useless a set may be, if you print a tutor card, it will see play.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Probably even one of the most expensive cards in the set - at about a buck...
DarthParallax
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
what the.....
so let me get this straight.
Even in Homelands, we have 2 cost blue common cards that manipulate the library in some way that get RESTRICTED IN VINTAGE?!???!!!?!?!?!
I think Wizards just needs to stop trying to make Blue common cards. xP
Announcement: "Common" is no longer part of Blue's color pie. From now on, all Blue cards will be uncommon or Rare. To help balance this disadvantage, Mythic Rarity will also be removed, but only from Blue. This means no more Blue Planeswalkers. Remember the last time we tried to give a Blue a really good Walker? Yeah, so just...no more Blue Walkers.
Best card in Homelands. But it doesn't say much since the second best is Serrated Arrows.
Aquillion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The best card in Homelands is... a card that can search you up a non-Homelands card. Somehow, I'm not surprised.
aboblyndsae
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I laughed so hard when I found out this was a Common. I bought more of Homelands than any other set back when I started playing, and I never got one of these. Not one. But I have enough Dwarven Traders to fill a mini-mall.
BetweenWalls
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ aboblyndsae
You probably didn't get any because it's not actually as common as other commons. It was effectively an uncommon card. Gatherer has it wrong.
Homelands had 8-card booster packs, with 6 cards from one 121-card (C) sheet, and 2 card from the other 121-card (U) sheet. The C-sheet had 50 C2 cards and 21 C1 cards on it, which just means those cards appeared on the sheet 2 or 1 times each. (50x2 + 21 = 121) Merchant Scroll was one of the C1 cards. The U-sheet had 25 U3s and 46 U1s. (25*3 + 46 = 121)
A C1 card appeared once on the C-sheet, so had a 1/121 chance of appearing for each C-card included in the booster. Because of the 6-2 breakdown, (6 C-cards & 2 U-cards) this means that a C1 like Merchant Scroll had a 4.96% of appearing per booster. (1/121 * 6 = 0.0496) U3s, which are widely accepted as uncommons, had that exact same chance. (3/121 * 2 = 0.0496)
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so let me get this straight.
Even in Homelands, we have 2 cost blue common cards that manipulate the library in some way that
get RESTRICTED IN VINTAGE?!???!!!?!?!?!
I think Wizards just needs to stop trying to make Blue common cards. xP
Announcement: "Common" is no longer part of Blue's color pie. From now on, all Blue cards will be uncommon or Rare. To help balance this disadvantage, Mythic Rarity will also be removed, but only from Blue. This means no more Blue Planeswalkers. Remember the last time we tried to give a Blue a really good Walker? Yeah, so just...no more Blue Walkers.
Sincerely,
Wizards "We done messed up" of the Coast
You probably didn't get any because it's not actually as common as other commons. It was effectively an uncommon card. Gatherer has it wrong.
Homelands had 8-card booster packs, with 6 cards from one 121-card (C) sheet, and 2 card from the other 121-card (U) sheet. The C-sheet had 50 C2 cards and 21 C1 cards on it, which just means those cards appeared on the sheet 2 or 1 times each. (50x2 + 21 = 121) Merchant Scroll was one of the C1 cards. The U-sheet had 25 U3s and 46 U1s. (25*3 + 46 = 121)
A C1 card appeared once on the C-sheet, so had a 1/121 chance of appearing for each C-card included in the booster. Because of the 6-2 breakdown, (6 C-cards & 2 U-cards) this means that a C1 like Merchant Scroll had a 4.96% of appearing per booster. (1/121 * 6 = 0.0496) U3s, which are widely accepted as uncommons, had that exact same chance. (3/121 * 2 = 0.0496)