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Name Read the Bones Edit card
Type Sorcery
Description Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Flavor The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.
Artist Lars Grant-West
Set Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander #154
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About Read the Bones

Read the Bones, Sorcery, designed by Lars Grant-West first released in Sep, 2013 in the set Theros and was printed exactly in 12 different ways. It see play in 1 formats: Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of $ 0.15.

A deck that focuses on card advantage and manipulation, such as a control or combo deck, would benefit from using Read the Bones. While it provides card draw and selection, the downside of losing 2 life can be mitigated in decks that have ways to gain life or win quickly. There are better cards like Painful Truths or Night's Whisper that offer similar effects without the life loss, making them more versatile options. Whether Read the Bones should see play depends on the specific strategy and synergy within the deck, but it can be a solid choice in certain situations.

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Rules

09/15/13

Scry appears on some spells and abilities with one or more targets. If all of the spell or ability’s targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t scry.

09/15/13

The loss of life is part of the spell’s effect. It’s not an additional cost. If Read the Bones doesn’t resolve, you won’t lose life.

09/15/13

You choose how to order cards returned to your library after scrying no matter where you put them.

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