Seek Bolas's Counsel
Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021 98 • rare
- Set
- Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021
- Collector number
- 98
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- blue mana black mana red mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Black · Red · Blue
- Artist
- Matt Warren
- Market price
- $0.32
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 Mystery Booster 2021 Playtest Cards, a unique set introduced by Wizards of the Coast for convention-only environments. These cards were designed to capture the experimental, sometimes chaotic spirit of internal R&D design phases, featuring unconventional mechanics and white-bordered layouts that mimic the look of paper-printed prototypes used for testing card interactions before finalization.
The card was designed within the high-level playtest environment to explore unconventional mana-neutral mechanics. Like all cards in this series, it features a intentionally stark, minimalist design aesthetic meant to focus players on the mechanics rather than finished art or flavor text. Its reception among collectors is defined by its extreme scarcity and its status as a piece of meta-commentary on the game design process itself.
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