Seek Bolas's Counsel
Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2019 98 • rare
- Set
- Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2019
- Collector number
- 98
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- blue mana black mana red mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black · Red · Blue
- Artist
- Matt Warren
- Market price
- $0.86
What it does
Choose one at random —
• You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, pay blue mana black mana red mana. If you don't, you lose the game."
• Each player discards their hand.
• Planeswalk to Pools of Becoming. (Once there, you can roll the planar die only if you're playing Planechase.)
• For each opponent, exile cards from the top of their library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.
• Destroy all creatures and non-Bolas planeswalkers.
• You get an emblem with "You can cast nonland cards from your sideboard."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
Seek Bolas's Counsel was released as part of the 2019 Mystery Booster Playtest Cards, a unique set distributed at Magic: The Gathering events. These cards were designed by Wizards of the Coast as a meta-commentary on the game's development process, featuring mechanics and design aesthetics that were considered for internal testing but never reached full print runs. The card intentionally evokes the powerful planeswalker Nicol Bolas, utilizing flavor text and mechanical complexity to reflect the character's manipulative and high-stakes nature within the game's narrative.
The design of this playtest card emphasizes a 'playtest' visual style, characterized by simplified, minimalist layout elements and placeholder art styles common to early prototype cards. It was intended to provide players with an experience of what unfinished or experimental card design looks like behind the scenes. Reception among the enthusiast community was largely centered on its status as a collector's curiosity, as it offers a glimpse into the iterative nature of trading card game production and the discarded concepts that shape the final game.
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