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Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
KeywordsSurveil
Why is this card good?
Consider is one of the best one-mana cantrips in blue, full stop. The surveil before drawing is a real upgrade over Opt: you smooth your draws and fuel your graveyard simultaneously, which matters far more in Commander than the raw card advantage.
Why it's great:
- Graveyard decks love it — surveil bins reanimation targets, flashback cards, delve fuel, or anything you want in the yard rather than your hand (Muldrotha, Tasigur, Chainer, spellslinger).
- Spellslinger/storm decks want cheap instants to trigger prowess, magecraft, and chain off Young Pirate/Underworld Breach effects while replacing themselves.
- It enables delirium, threshold, and delve payoffs you'd otherwise struggle to turn on.
When NOT to play it: in decks with no graveyard synergy at all, a pure cantrip is filler — you're often better off with impactful cards in a 99-card singleton format. It's a deck-thinning role-player, not a bomb. But for any blue deck that cares about its yard, it's near-auto-include.
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Printings (12)
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Rulings (1)
- 2024-01-12
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.