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Pedantic Learning

Multiverse ID: 29940

Pedantic Learning

Comments (25)

cereal_killer
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0) (2 votes)
I'm surprised nobody has done this yet.
thaviel
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (4 votes)
at first I was like...o cool i get to draw but then I was like...so do I use glimpse the unthinkable on my self?
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Tough card to make use of...mill yourself using cards like Saprazzan Breaker maybe?
Sigh...this card would be a whole lot more interesting if you didn't have to pay any mana for drawing.
SocialExperiment
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (2 votes)
I suppose you could use it with Knight of the Reliquary or Harrow, but it really doesn't seem worth including over other, more useful cards.
Ritius
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If only it were from your hand too :P
wolfbear2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Could be a bomb in dredge... just not enough room for it I geuss.
Herm_Diggity
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
This card is shallow and pedantic lol
exterion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
As wolfbear2 noted, this could be a bomb in dredge, especially in a casual deck when combined with the keyword dredge itself (I'm not sure if he meant the archetype or the keyword).
Once you've gotten something with dredge in your graveyard (with a turn one Careful Study, perhaps?), you wont have any problems getting the rest of your deck there.

The biggest minus though ought to be the double blue cost, but that shouldn't be too hard to get around with all mana fixing available
KicktheCAN
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (4 votes)
Good with Jace's Erasure. That's about it I guess.
cathode01
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
At first I thought this was good because I misread the part about "from your library". Then realized it's pretty awful. If it let you draw without paying a cost, or triggered when a land went to your graveyard from play, it might be useful. As it is, pretty worthless except a few extremely rare corner cases (the aforementioned dredge decks).
Mr.Wimples
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
This card deserves a much higher rating. Just because it can't fit into any old deck doesn't make it bad.

Like aforementioned, run this with Jace's Erasure and something that reveals the top card of your library, such as Wizened Snitches or Sphinx of Jwar Isle. Whenever you draw a card, you get to take a look at the next card up; If it's a card you don't want you can mill it with the erasure, if you want the next card though you can keep it there and mill your opponent's top card instead (if it's good, that is). If your next card is a land and you don't need it, mill it then draw again. This card could be an especially efficient deck thinner if ran with Scry cards or cards with Scry-like functions such as Sage Owl. Need I not mention Crucible of Worlds; ensure a land drop almost every turn and even more card acceleration.

Now if you'll excuse me gentlemen, I'm off to build a deck.

4/5
BegleOne
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I tried this rogue blue/ white standard deck back in Odyssey block that would mill itself using stuff like Mental Note, Think Tank, Reviving Vapors or even Cephalid Vandal to get big stuff into the graveyard... Pedantic Learning would be a handy way to draw counters and bounce while I was doing that. The goal was to Breath of Life an Ancestor's Chosen and then gain lots of life to win with a Test of Endurance. I had Hanna, Ship's Navigator to return the Test of Endurance if I milled it, and a Reya Dawnbringer as a back-up plan...

Never came close to working. On a good night I might be able to delay a Psychatog deck by 1 or 2 turns.
Gabriel422
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I always thought this card was the one named "Unifying Theory".

My land going from my library to my graveyard? What, why do I care? Wait, this draws me cards? Just how?
JFM2796
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Self mill?
Tensuillio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Could be pretty powerful in a deck with Wood Sage and some of the upcoming Innistrad creatures that interact with the graveyard. If you slap a Pemmin's Aura or a Freed From the Real on the Sage, all the better. The main problem is the mana cost, but adding good old Bloom Tender to the deck would more or less fix that.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This would be incredible in recent self-mill decks...
adrian.malacoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I guess it's good against trepanation blade maybe
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a support card in self-mill decks that otherwise don't profit from milling lands. This is what you run if you don't have Terravore.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo's with Laboratory Maniac to deck yourself ftw faster.
3/5 Stars
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
mesmeric orb

That was easy.
4/5.
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
broken with loafing giant