Preordain
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive 21 • rare
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive
- Collector number
- 21
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Aitor Sebastián
- Market price
- $2.65
What it does
Scry 2, then draw a card. (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.)
"Raw power wins battles, but those who choose the shape of the battlefield win the war."— *The Pool of Knowledge*, opening inscription
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricBanned
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Preordain was originally released in the 2011 Magic: The Gathering set Magic 2011, serving as a powerful blue sorcery designed to provide players with efficient library manipulation. The card allows a player to scry two cards before drawing, a mechanic that became a cornerstone of consistency in various competitive formats. Its design intent focused on smoothing out gameplay by filtering through the deck, a role it continues to play in eternal formats like Legacy and Modern.
The Mystical Archive version, released in 2021 as part of the Strixhaven: School of Mages expansion, features unique, stylized artwork that distinguishes it from the standard edition. This archive collection was designed to celebrate iconic instants and sorceries from Magic’s history by providing them with special thematic borders and Japanese-inspired illustrations. The art for this specific printing reflects the prestige and magical academic atmosphere of the Strixhaven setting, and it was widely received by collectors as a visually striking aesthetic update to a classic functional card.
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