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The fist thing that comes to mind is Augur of Bolas, which dug deeper and put a card in your hand. This is good if you happen to dig up your bomb and want it to stay. Art is absolutely gorgeous, though.

"Akroan must not battle Phyrexians!"

The artwork seems rather peculiar. Kind of cartoony and all, and very different from most of the artwork in the set...

Hey, it's the Oracle of Theros. If you look closely you might see Born of the Gods spoilers.

Blocks bears and gives the controller five options to consider. Doesn't draw a card, but sometimes it'll feel like that.

This is not Sea Gate Oracle which, being another common, seems like a more apt comparison than to Augur of Bolas. Sometimes when a good card rotates you have to settle for second/third best, hoping that you won't miss the card draw. This is fine in Limited and probably will see play in some Standard decks, but it is by no means 'good'. It is adequate.

Yes, she is practically worse than Augur. No, she will still see play, because the control decks need an early creature to roadblock, you can't go full of Sin Collector, because he just trades.

The art on this is horrendous (especially now since MTG has upped the standard on all its cards). It is particularly "outstanding" in the trailer when blown up. I logged in just to comment on this.

Water ISNT blue! its transparent! (blue comes from the reflection of the sky, but still the water must have a sense of fluidity and transparency. The ability to render water is a hallmark of a great artist) Is she bathing in laundry detergent? the colours on her are amateurish as well. WOTC, I do appreciate you guys giving new artists the chance, but please, have some QC

@Immelmann: Not sure if you knew this, but water is in fact very faintly blue. It shouldn't be this blue of course, but calling water transparent is just a little wrong.

That isn't water...

Instead of comparing her with Augur of Bolas, compare her with Augury Owl. Sadly, she still falls a bit short in that comparison as well.

This might sound bold, but i think this card is a little better than augur of bolas. Close equals at the least.

With augur you cant make sure you hit land drops, and you put planeswalkers, enchantments, and creatures on the bottom. (Namely Jace architect of thought and aetherling)

With omenspeaker even though you don't draw a card, not drawing a card you don't need is pretty much the same.(better card quality instead of card advantage)

Sometimes with omen speaker you don't end up changing anything, sometimes augur wiffs too.

I see Simic written all over this card. This could go a very long way to making evolve work (maybe not competitively, but at least make evolve much better). The evolve mechanic relies on close to ideal on-curve drops. It also relies on a very creature heavy deck, so instants and sorceries with scry and/or draw don't tend to synergize very well. On the other hand, evolve has been needing desperately a creature like this to make its draws work in its favor. Here is a card that evolves every single one-, two-, and three-drop evolve card (it can evolve the one drops twice!), and it itself is a two-drop that can dig for what you need, in the order you need to play it. The 3 toughness is especially relevant to such a deck independent of the evolving it provides, since a deck like this has to have good blockers early in order to survive into the mid- and late-game against faster decks. It will be fun to build with this. 4/5.

The flavor of the card is interesting. She appears to be holding a roll of toilet paper of epic proportions. The text seems to confirm this, that she is speaking out of her ... well, you get the idea. Anyway, that actually all makes sense given how prophecy was done back in the day at Delphi, ritual purification in preparation for mystical (hallucinogenic) gasses rising through her body, escaping from her mouth. (Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about. Fascinating stuff...)

The art reminds me of serum visions.

Comparing with scroll thief. Same body for cheaper and this guys utility is ETB, so you still get benefit if they remove, all for 1 less mana.

Yes I replaced my thiefs with this guy right when I found out about it.