Useful with just about every discard spell. You'll wind up with alot of card advantage. I mean; you're adding a Divination's effect to Hymn to Tourach, meaning you'll reap 3 card advantage for 2 mana!
so, SO good. with a few of these in your deck any discard deck becomes a draw deck as well. best part is that it says "may" so you dont have to over draw and then discard.
When combined with Words of Waste, your opponent won't be able to keep any cards on hand, and if you have the possibility to draw on his/her turn (e.g. with Mind's Eye). this will even create a lockdown.
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm not too certain about this card. Successful discard deck would empty/lower opponent's hand fairly quickly, and this artifact requires an opponent to actually discard a card to trigger. With that said, 4 mana seems a little slow for such decks.
asandberge
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
It would be awesome of it wasn't discard, but put cards from the top of their library. I know that would be extremely OP in a mill deck, but it would make a draw strategy with Jace's Erasure. Essentially, whoever has the most cards left in their deck would win.
But still, this card is okay, I mean it isn't 5/5 because it doesn't work that well for milling, but you can still combo this with other cards like Jace's Erasure (They discard a card, you draw a card, they mill a card from their library). You can add Bloodchief Ascension and have the game in the bag.
Fill the rest of the deck with burn spells and you have an incendiary card draw engine. Chandra's wheel of fortune/burning inquiry turns into a blighting storm!
Gaaaaaaa. This is creepy. An undead head's book? Yikes.
Kitty_the_Kat
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Combos very well with a Consecrated Sphinx and Words of Waste lockdown set-up. Load up with extraction spells like Thoughtseize or Inquistition of Kozilek and make use general discard likeMind Twist and they'll have no choice but to scoop.
This + Words of Waste is a soft lock for per turn. On their turn, pay to replace the card you'd draw from Grimoire with a discard. On your turn, pay to replace your draw-step draw with a discard. They draw one, discard two, and thus can't keep up. Once they're down to an empty hand, draw during your draw step normally, and keep spending the on their turn. When you can, play Nether Void to ensure they can't play any instants they draw.
Use with something like Plague Boiler to wipe stuff already on the battlefield.
SirMalkin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Grimoires are an inefficient method of data storage. Geth do not use them.
Zoah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Meh. I've played with it and I was never happy to see it. By the time I managed to get it into play I'd already gotten all the cards in my opponent's hand... I'm thinking I'll do removal instead. Or Sangromancer Worst case you have a 3/3 creature. Best case, you gain nine life and user her as a possible win condition.
bantar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
they're cool with cephalids with the activate abilities that make a player draw and discard, because for each, you will draw.
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Raven's Crime would go great with this too.
Anvil of Borgadan, Delirium Skeins or Cunning Lethemancer for instance works great with this in a discard deck with Megrim or Liliana's Caress.
When combined with Words of Waste, your opponent won't be able to keep any cards on hand, and if you have the possibility to draw on his/her turn (e.g. with Mind's Eye). this will even create a lockdown.
But still, this card is okay, I mean it isn't 5/5 because it doesn't work that well for milling, but you can still combo this with other cards like Jace's Erasure (They discard a card, you draw a card, they mill a card from their library). You can add Bloodchief Ascension and have the game in the bag.
Fill the rest of the deck with burn spells and you have an incendiary card draw engine. Chandra's wheel of fortune/burning inquiry turns into a blighting storm!
Reckless Scholar is pretty nice too.
use with Blightning, Augur of skulls etc etc O.o
seriously, WTH?! O.o
This + Words of Waste is a soft lock for
Use with something like Plague Boiler to wipe stuff already on the battlefield.
again:laboratory maniac, jace's archivist, pemmin's aura