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CardName: Afar Off Beyond Cost: 5G Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a permanent card with converted mana cost 5 or less among them onto the battlefield. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Flavour Text: They stood thus while long years were measured by the wheeling stars above them; and the trees grew tall and dark before they spoke any word. Set/Rarity: Silmarillion: The Love of Lúthien Common
Afar Off Beyond
  Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a permanent card with converted mana cost 5 or less among them onto the battlefield. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
They stood thus while long years were measured by the wheeling stars above them; and the trees grew tall and dark before they spoke any word.
Illus. Kip Rasmussen
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I've this strange sensation that this is less insane at common than it seems. Obviously too wordy, but I got couple of slots to spare that can be allowed to get redflagged here.
It certainly doesn't look like a common... but I guess it might be less insane than it seems, yes.
Kinda hard to tell. It's no Elvish Piper on the cost for summoning something; but scry7 is rather nice. I wonder if it wouldn't be more used to get around strange alt-costs though.
The cards are put on the bottom of library so it's hardly "scry 7". I feel it's maybe something like Commune with Nature but digs two cards deeper, can grab any permanent that costs 5 (or less) and you have to play that permanent immediately. It also "autofixes" your mana so you don't have to worry about that, but that's something
can do. I don't think there are any wacky alt-cost cards in this set, so that wouldn't be a problem. I actually think it would be a plus if a card that's just a pretty bland common in limited could have some (even powerful) uses outside its own environment. I think it is/was one of the "tenets" of those "hypothetical ideal set" concepts in which no "bulk/bad" cards are made (ie. everything is made for constructed). Obviously this set has already somewhat failed to reach that in there's stuff like (((Sin-Begotten Horde))) in the set, that while cool (has nice flavor and name), is just an unplayable card outside of limited.