Read the Bones

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Name	Read the Bones
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	Pioneer Masters #94337
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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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 14 different ways. It see play in 2 formats: Commander and Duel Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of $ 0.13.

A black-heavy control or midrange deck would benefit from using Read the Bones, as it provides card advantage through both scrying and drawing cards, helping the player dig deeper into their deck for key cards. However, other cards like Sign in Blood or Night's Whisper may offer similar effects at a lower mana cost or with added benefits, and the decision to include Read the Bones in a deck would depend on the specific strategy and availability of alternatives.

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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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