CardName: Grimoire Flock
Cost: 2B
Type: Artifact Creature - Construct
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Rules Text: Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures
with flying or reach.)
Insight (When this creature enters the battlefield exile the
top card of your library face-down. You may look at it and
exchange it with a card in your hand as a sorcery.)
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: Verica: The Planar Library Common
Grimoire Flock
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Artifact Creature – Construct
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Insight (When this creature enters the battlefield exile the top card of your library face-down. You may look at it and exchange it with a card in your hand as a sorcery.)
This also seems quite similar to to many custom mechanics over the years - though restricted to an etb trigger which is weird. At first glance this seems like a lot of unnecessary revolving of cards.
The common variations which you are likely familiar with are often like (like the one in great designer search 2):
> "Archive" (To archive a card, exile it face down. You may look archived cards you own. If you would draw a card, you may put an archived card to your hand instead.)
Is library manipulation a theme here? That could mean that the set would be -preferring format like how many of the sets have preferred (torment, new phyrexia, etc).
From that theme I recall a mechanic from the past that created new mini-libraries or something like that - it was quite fascinating.
Insight showcase common.
This also seems quite similar to to many custom mechanics over the years - though restricted to an etb trigger which is weird. At first glance this seems like a lot of unnecessary revolving of cards.
The common variations which you are likely familiar with are often like (like the one in great designer search 2):
> "Archive" (To archive a card, exile it face down. You may look archived cards you own. If you would draw a card, you may put an archived card to your hand instead.)
Is library manipulation a theme here? That could mean that the set would be
-preferring format like how many of the sets have preferred
(torment, new phyrexia, etc).
From that theme I recall a mechanic from the past that created new mini-libraries or something like that - it was quite fascinating.