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CardName: Specialis Revelio Cost: 1U Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Draw a card. {1}{U}: Return Specialis Revelio from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep. Flavour Text: “Reveal your secrets!” Set/Rarity: Harry Potter and the Gathering of Magic Uncommon |
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Nice. My first thought was that looked overpowered, but it's actually just Treasure Trove or Azure Mage, giving you an immediate cantrip in place of the 2/1. Harder to kill, but needing to spend half the mana at sorcery speed makes up for that.
Would you believe I originally designed this at
and 
? (Another example of me consistently undervaluing repeatable card draw.) Early playtesting quickly showed that was ridiculous, and I upped it to 
and 
. When that still proved to be ridiculous, it became (what I thought at the time was crazy-high) 
and 
, where it was still playable but felt fair.
I learned a lot about developing repeatable card draw engines from this card.