The Timmy element of my cycle for Challenge # 093. When brainstorming Timmy cards I listed desirable traits as: big, exciting, awesome, leads to fun moments and experiences, "what are we going to get?"

Once the cycle structure suggested Timmy would have to be red, I took my inspiration from Epic Experiment. I feared the top card of library would be too easy to manipulate given the strength of some recent instants and sorceries, but I didn't want to have to slow things down by using the Mind's Desire style shuffle between every reveal. "Bottom card" is a compromise I'm not entirely happy with. Maybe "top card" could work, but I fear the card cost would have to go up in that case, and the cycle is tightly costed at CC at the moment.

This is one element of the cycle that doesn't really need flash, but it does let you get some free instants mid-combat with no warning.

Using a little New Mirrodin tech, you could always go "Reveal a card from your library of an opponent's choice." Weird, I know. But it works.

Wergle. Does it? Can they say "I choose... the twenty-ninth card down from the top"?

FWIW, "bottom" seems perfect to me. It's hard to manipulate, especially in standard, but there's a few obscure combos there if you look for them. Those both seem fine.

@Alex: Sure. But what you're really doing is fanning your library, and the opponent chooses one of them. It would be a rare game when exactly the 29th card mattered. I suppose the mechanic does have a problem when playing against jerks, though. Also problematic: stage magicians. But you have that same problem whenever somebody shuffles.