Keeps the manaflood at bay and it's indestructible artifact count.
mdakw576
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
like how it's scry in the set right before scry came out
blugrn1989
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I love this card... it's so nice to see what you are getting, and it's pretty cheap.
lukemol
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Hmmm....wonder why the Oracle text doesn't say "Scry 1" instead....
OsirisDragon
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Shouldn't the oracle have this say Scry 1?
Evil_Tactics
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Not the best artifact ever of course, but pretty decent for its mana cost and rarity.
Combines well with decks that focus on mass destruction and need to scry through the library to prevent redundant draws.
Also makes a nice 2/2 indestructible creature when combined with March of the Machines.
Dr.Pingas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
...Was this card ever really good? I never liked it.
kiseki
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I threw one in a Jokulhaups deck on a whim, and drew it in each of the next three games. I was ALWAYS happy to see it. I kept a hand with this and just two land, but I didn't miss a land drop. Then I would use it to recover quickly after I washed the world away.
The ability to use it at the end of your opponent's turn AND during your next upkeep is crazy.
It is a solid card for a deck that needs to hunt without having blue. This is a bit of card quantity disadvantage, but it makes up for it in spades with card quality advantage.
DoragonShinzui
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
A nice little filter. Not sure it had to be indestructible, but that's just icing on the cake really.
MacBizzle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I hated Vampire Nocturnus until I remembered this existed.
It's possible they used this as a way to test the power of the scry mechanic before releasing it, you know.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's not quite Scry: -It doesn't allow you to reorder the cards (bottom or top) -It doesn't allow you to put any number of those cards back on the top of your library
If an effect ever exists that says something like "If an ability you control would look at one card, instead replace all instances of one with three" then this would allow you to look at the top three of your library, and either put them back on the bottom (in the same order) or back on the top (in the same order.)
Still, it'd be a functional upgrade that would simplify things and the text I invented above doesn't exist, and likely won't exist anytime soon.
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Combines well with decks that focus on mass destruction and need to scry through the library to prevent redundant draws.
Also makes a nice 2/2 indestructible creature when combined with March of the Machines.
I kept a hand with this and just two land, but I didn't miss a land drop.
Then I would use it to recover quickly after I washed the world away.
The ability to use it at the end of your opponent's turn AND during your next upkeep is crazy.
It is a solid card for a deck that needs to hunt without having blue. This is a bit of card quantity disadvantage, but it makes up for it in spades with card quality advantage.
-It doesn't allow you to reorder the cards (bottom or top)
-It doesn't allow you to put any number of those cards back on the top of your library
If an effect ever exists that says something like "If an ability you control would look at one card, instead replace all instances of one with three" then this would allow you to look at the top three of your library, and either put them back on the bottom (in the same order) or back on the top (in the same order.)
Still, it'd be a functional upgrade that would simplify things and the text I invented above doesn't exist, and likely won't exist anytime soon.
There would be plenty of room for flavor text if this were printed today:
Darksteel Pendant
Indestructible