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Mystical Tutor
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Mystical Tutor

{U}

Instant

LegalGame Changer Salt 1.20EDHREC #146

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Why is this card good?

Mystical Tutor is one of the cleanest, cheapest instant/sorcery tutors in blue, and it earns its Game Changer flag for good reason: at {U} you can fetch any answer or wincon at instant speed, end-of-turn or in response to a threat. The catch is it puts the card on top of your library, so you're paying a card disadvantage and a turn of tempo to draw it next. That makes it best when you have a specific high-impact target — a board wipe, a counterspell, a combo piece (Ad Nauseam, Time Walk effects), or a finisher like Expropriate. Who wants it: spellslinger decks, combo/control commanders (Kess, Talrand, Niv-Mizzet), and any cEDH-adjacent blue list with a deterministic instant/sorcery win. It also shines with surveil/topdeck synergies and Storm. Skip it in creature-centric, tokens, or aristocrats decks with few impactful instants/sorceries — there, you're just fetching a single mediocre spell for a card down. Tutors reward having a great target.

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Combos (8)

Rulings (1)

  • 2016-06-08

    The “shuffle and put the card on top” is a single action. If an effect causes the top card of the library to be face up, the second card down is not revealed.

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