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CardName: Esoterica Scholar Cost: 4U Type: Creeature - Turtle Wizard Pow/Tgh: 2/5 Rules Text: When Esoterica Scholar enters the battlefield, put target instant, sorcery, or artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library. Flavour Text: Lost knowledge or forgotten spells - whatever you need, it is contained within the writings on his shell. Set/Rarity: Xianlu Common

Esoterica Scholar

Creeature – Turtle Wizard

When Esoterica Scholar enters the battlefield, put target instant, sorcery, or artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library.

Lost knowledge or forgotten spells – whatever you need, it is contained within the writings on his shell.

2/5

Updated on 06 Nov 2017 by Mal

Code: CU08

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2017-10-23 11:29:31: Mal created and commented on the card Esoterica Scholar

by Mal:

"Fangshi" is the term I want to use here, because this doesn't roll off the tongue as well. The comparison to make is Mnemonic Wall, but this doesn't give card advantage, so I feel like it's okay at this cost. Feel free to argue otherwise.

This turtle race use their shells as books or something. Couldn't resist making a shellbook/spellbook pun.

2017-10-23 11:31:02: Mal edited Esoterica Scholar

by Tahazzar:

This is "bendy" in a somewhat similar ways to Mystic Calligrapher. I don't recall there ever being a {u} card that would recur enchantments - or planeswalkers for that matter. With a quick search on gatherer I only found Saprazzan Bailiff.

by Mal:

You're probably right in that regard. I don't intend to have any Planeswalkers in the set, but it is something that should be monitored. I think I'll modify this to be "instant, sorcery, or artifact", to better differentiate it from Jinshan Priest and green Reclaim effects.

2017-11-06 04:46:21: Mal edited Esoterica Scholar:

Removed enchantments and planeswalkers as valid candidates.

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