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LegalGame Changer Salt 1.20Rank #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 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.
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.Related cards
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Printings (12)
Combos (8)
- Approach of the Second Sun + Mystical Tutor
→ Win the game
- Nexus of Fate + Isochron Scepter + Mystical Tutor
→ Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
- Beacon of Tomorrows + Isochron Scepter + Mystical Tutor
→ Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
- Zethi, Arcane Blademaster + Nexus of Fate + Mystical Tutor
→ Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
- Time Warp + Seasons Past + Mystical Tutor
→ Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps, Lock
- Temporal Manipulation + Seasons Past + Mystical Tutor
→ Lock, Infinite turns, Skip your draw steps