Orcish Librarian
Time Spiral Timeshifted 66
- Set
- Time Spiral Timeshifted
- Collector number
- 66
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Phil Foglio
- Market price
- $0.42
What it does
red mana, tap: Look at the top eight cards of your library. Exile four of them at random, then put the rest on top of your library in any order.
"Us hungry, need food . . . . Lots of books . . . . Hmm . . . ."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Orcish Librarian was originally printed in the 1995 Homelands expansion, intended to provide red decks with a form of deck manipulation that played into the chaotic, flavor-heavy nature of that set. The card was designed by the Wizards of the Coast team during a period when the game's mechanics were experimenting with top-of-library control, though it was often criticized for its high activation cost and the fragility of a creature-based effect.
The version presented here is from the Time Spiral Timeshifted series, released in 2006. This special subset featured iconic or quirky cards from Magic's past, reprinted with their original art and a unique purple expansion symbol to evoke nostalgia. The design by Pete Venters remains a hallmark of 1990s fantasy aesthetics, and its inclusion in Time Spiral was intended as a stylistic nod to the long-standing community discussions surrounding the card's perceived inefficiency and humorous flavor text.
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