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let's you go through your deck faster and discard doesn't effect the top of your library.

I totally love this card. Lets you eat throught your deck faster than you can imagine. At least until you hit the second land for the turn.

Gotta love a card that basically turns your deck into your hand. 5/5, no joke.

Mmmm. Somebody tell me how this is good. It basically just increases your maximum hand size by one (one which your opponents get to see), for 5 mana. Why not conjure up a Graceful Adept or Spellbook instead? Or a Magus of the Future, who does the same thing for the same cost, as a 2/3 creature?

I love this card, if I'm playing mono blue, it's always in.

It doesn't increase your maximum hand size by one; it increases the number of spells you can play per turn, increases tempo, mana ramp and options. You can play the next card on top, and the next and the next; going through several cards per turn if you can play them all.

Magus of the Future is inferior because as a creature, it is far more susceptible to removal.

Has anyone noticed how the Time Spiral block is named after cards from previous sets?
Like Planar Choas from Judment, Time Spiral from Urza's, and Future Sight from Onslaught?
I think its ironic.

This and the Magus are both awesome. This is a bit more durable, but the Magus has the advantage of being in a supported type. I use Vedalken Aethermage to fetch it all the time :P

Unless I'm horribly, horribly mistaken, this is downright amazing with necropotence- Don't like the card on the top of your deck? Pay 1 life and exile it, so you can get something more useful instead.

Of course, this sort of thing is only efficient in EDH, but still.

If you don't understand the power of this card, my sensei's divining top should be able to point you in the right direction.

@Fictionarious its good because if you have a lot of lands out and you have a bunch of low cost cards (like in a R/U instant/sorcery deck) then you can keep casting them. Essentially, as long as you have the mana to keep it going, you can play a ton of stuff in your deck, and if you have draw spells in the deck itself, you can go through a ton of different cards in a single turn. I'm really mad that they haven't reprinted this b/c i just began running it in a R/U deck thats standard from the zendikar block and before it, the deck was fine, but after it just dismantled my opponent time and again.

This could be abused by madness and Psychatog. Is there any way to bring enchantments to the field cheaper and/or faster? I got some ideas around this card :)

This art is like Labyrinth!

if you actually play this card often enuf, i think youd agree that this is one of the most fun and fuckin kool cards

Save a serum vision in your hand to blow past the eventual land blockades.

It does what it's supposed to. It turns you into a god.

this thing is an absolute card advantage MACHINE.

I can't believe no one has mentioned this, but Oracle Of Mul Daya, Exploration, and Call of the Wild are all amazing with this, and let you chain the stack of cards even further. As many have mentioned, add Sensei's Dvining Top to keep your countermagic just below the surface or in your hand to prevent this overextension from absolutely destroying you.

Explaining the value of this card to new players is always fun.

"You may play the top card of your library."

...So?

"When you play the top card of your library, a new card becomes the top card of your library."

...And?

"Effectively, Play a card: draw a card. Sound good to you?"

...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Combo this with helm of awakening, and sensei's divining top. Draw your entire deck, and cast a bunch of free top spells for a lethal brain freeze. This combo is bonkers!

My personal favorite combo with this is to have an Etherium Sculptor and Sensei's Divining Top out. The Top costs nothing, and goes back to the top of the library after you draw a card with it. So you have a "Draw as many cards as you want" engine. Have a Reliquary Tower in play for added flair.

I've pulled this off in EDH, the realization from other players is hilarious. "Okay, who let this happen?" is an exact quote.

Intersting comparison with Null Profusion. Your opponent can see the card, but you get to keep a larger hand and it's immune to discard shenanigans.

Story time:

Okay help me out here guys, I haven't played since 2001, and my last semi-active deck was mono-blue counter control with a trio of palinchrons (only 3 because I was in middle school so I couldn't just, like order cards online like people apparently do these days, had to actually trade for shit) and four high tides with the goal of keeping everything shut down until I started putting out blue heavies for free and casting infinity mana power sink (and being able to use a sixty point helm of obedience is nothing to scoff at either.) So a guy at work wants to do a sealed deck tourney with some friends with onslaught, and is covering costs by having us pay our share and keep the cards. I figure what the hey, it'll be like magic again but actually fun. By the by I pick up a Future Sight and read the runes which aren't much good for the elf deck I'm building but then neither is whatever else is in the booster pack so I figure at least this might at least undercut someone trying to build a blue deck and maybe I'll decided to go blue/green if it comes to it.

So tourney ends, and I'm sitting on some onslaught cards I've never seen before and decide to go dig up my decade old deck and see how they fit (and to see how much my eleven years younger brain struggled with strategy games... some of the stuff in that deck is wholly unnecessary.) Turns out I'm sitting on a Library of Leng that I had thrown in for giggles. The future sight I figured I could just throw in for fun because at worst my opponent knows I've got an island coming up, at best I can chain through a slew of counters that make up a third of the deck. But then I get to thinking....

tl;dr Here's the gist of my question. If you're running a pali/hightide infinite mana combo with a lib of leng in play and you drop a 60 (or whatever number of cards is left in your library) point read the runes, does leng let you turn around and stack those cards in the order of your choosing right back into the library? and, presuming future sight is one of the cards you palm in this process, if you don't have it in play already, it would then let you conceivably play through your entire deck exactly as you'd like with all the land clumped on the bottom, which you wouldn't need anyway from the pali mana generator.

It's a ridiculously complex combo, but assuming you built a deck around making that happen, you could then put literally any kind of ridiculous victory combo into action as long as you had the cards necessary somewhere in your deck, no matter how outrageous or otherwise unlikely to happen. At least, that's what it looks like to me, and I'm wondering if this would actually work this way or if I'm missing something in all the rule changes of the past ten years?

I want to replace my Mind Unbound in my zombie deck with this and combo it with Rooftop Storm. I could easily burn through chunks of Zombies at a time for free.

This card is fun with Azusa, Lost but Seeking

"Magus of the Future is inferior because as a creature, it is far more susceptible to removal."
Not entirely true. Can yours be tutored up with Vedalken AEthermage?

But I do agree with you. Future Sight is better. Both of these cards give such an insane amount of card advantage. And you'll get more value out of your fetch lands since they allow you to shuffle your library. I think someone already said it, but Sensei's Divining Top allows you to draw for 1 mana since you can play top off of your library.

There are so many fun tricks that you can pull with Future Sight. Combined with Mystical Tutor, it essentially says, "Go look through your deck and cast any Instant from it." Or when combined with Reclaim/Noxious Revival, "Go ahead and cast something again from your graveyard."

Very epic card indeed. 5/5

@RamadaArtist: Yes, you choose the order you discard to Read the Runes, and could theoretically stack your library as you like. However, once you have infinite mana with High Tide and Palinchron, I think it's better to just draw your deck with Azure Mage or Blue Sun's Zenith.

Omniscience from M13 will let you play your entire deck as long as you have the ability to draw every once in awhile to move lands out of the way :o

Omniscience with this and Mana Severance
Play your entire deck!
For overkill, keep a Laboratory Maniac in your deck and Lightning Greaves to seal the deal.

Kind of like a recycle.

Play this with stuff like Gitaxian Probe, 0 drops, and cantrips. Then play all the 1 and 2 drop tutors you can find.

Play this in a {U}{G} deck with Azusa, Lost but Seeking, tons of mana creatures, and Lightning Greaves. Oh, and Gitaxian Probe. This card essentially becomes {2}{U}{U}{U}: Your turn doesn't finish.

After this, there was the set Future Sight.

Fastbond

Fun card with tons of combos! 4/5

@ Cyleal and accsavious: Reread Omniscience. The top of your library is not your hand.

Unlike many bomb enchantments, this doesn't seem like a threat to your opponents (at first). If anything, they think it's a disadvantage that you're revealing everything you're drawing and going to draw. But then you see you're going to draw a land next turn. Then you play that land instead of the one in your hand. Then you see you've got a Pongify on the top. You end your turn. Your opponents quiver at your "disadvantage", knowing that attacking you will mean a new ape friend.

One of my favourite applications with this (which is usable in any EDH deck that uses ) is this + Sensei's Divining Top.

You play Top, the top, drawing the card and placing Top on top of your library, then cast the Top. It's effectively a spell that says, " Draw a card", since this can also add to your Storm count. Regardless, this is very useful when all else fails.

One of my favorite blue cards ever printed, right up there with . This thing will consistently offer card advantage. Not to mention the awesome flavor text from a legendary wizard, who has an awesome story of his own if you read the stories

Combos with Terramorphic Expanse