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CardName: Cryptic Tome Cost: 2 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {2}, {T}: Name a card. Reveal the top card of your library. If it is the named card, put it into your hand. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Core 1 Rare

Cryptic Tome
{2}
 
 R 
Artifact
{2}, {t}: Name a card. Reveal the top card of your library. If it is the named card, put it into your hand.
Updated on 18 Feb 2016 by wolfer

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2011-01-11 05:36:06: wolfer edited Cryptic Tome

There is absolutely no way in hell this is anywhere close to fair in any Constructed format.

Yeah--maybe at 2 and 2 it can be tested--but wolfer doesn't normally design his sets for constructed that much.

2011-01-11 17:52:59: wolfer edited Cryptic Tome

Went with 2/2. This is the kind of card that often looks too powerful, but rarely is

No, like. Divining Top.

I think paying 4 mana to draw a card ONLY IF you have a top active isn't worth it, particularly when you can pay four mana for JACE.

All that aside, this is made for a format where there is not top, so I can be a little bit more careless about hyper-synergies with old cards. I think 2/2 will be fine, and I suspect this card won't be played in my mini-format.

2/2 is fine. I thought your comment about the card looking powerful but not actually being powerful was on when it was still 1/1, and my response was in regards to that.

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