Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Desperate Research

1B · Sorcery

Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Riftsweeper 1GCreature — Elf Shaman When Riftsweeper enters the battlefield, choose target face-up exiled card. Its owner shuffles it into their library. 2/2
Gather the Pack 1GSorcery Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, put up to two creature cards from among the revealed cards into your hand instead of one.
Game Plan 5USorcery Assist (Another player can pay up to {5} of this spell's cost.) Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Exile Game Plan.
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator 3BBLegendary Planeswalker — Ashiok If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead. [+1]: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand. [−2]: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." [−7]: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile. Loyalty 5
Undercity Informer 2BCreature — Human Rogue {1}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard. 2/3
Assemble the Team BGSorcery Search the top third of your library, rounded up, for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sumala Woodshaper 2GWCreature — Elf Druid When Sumala Woodshaper enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. 2/1
Faerie Snoop 1UBCreature — Faerie Detective Flying Disguise {1}{U/B}{U/B} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When Faerie Snoop is turned face up, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. 1/4
Meletis Astronomer 1UCreature — Human Wizard Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Meletis Astronomer, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an enchantment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. 1/3
Thran Tome 4Artifact {5}, {T}: Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent chooses one of those cards. Put that card into your graveyard, then draw two cards.
Page 88