MagicalHacker - List of All Burst Card Draw

Commander / EDH*

MagicalHacker

Instant-Speed (17)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Commune with Lava
• 1x Dragonlord's Prerogative
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Graven Lore
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Jace's Ingenuity
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Opportunity
• 1x Precognitive Perception
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Scour the Laboratory
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Sphinx's Revelation
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Three Wishes
• 1x Vanish into Memory

Instant-Speed (Big Creature Theme) (3)

• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

Instant-Speed (Cheerios Theme) (1)

• 1x Paradoxical Outcome

Instant-Speed (Cleric Commander) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Instant-Speed (Discard Theme) (1)

• 1x Dream Salvage

Instant-Speed (Fetchlands) (1)

• 1x Mysteries of the Deep

Instant-Speed (Mill Theme) (2)

• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Instant-Speed (Rogue Commander) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Instant-Speed (Self-Mill Theme) (1)

• 1x Visions of Beyond

Instant-Speed (Tribal Cleric Theme) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Instant-Speed (Tribal Rogue Theme) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Instant-Speed (Tribal Warrior Theme) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Instant-Speed (Tribal Wizard Theme) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Instant-Speed (Warrior Commander) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Instant-Speed (Wizard Commander) (1)

• 1x Spoils of Adventure

Sorcery-Speed (34)

• 1x Act on Impulse
• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Balance of Power
• 1x Biomantic Mastery
• 1x Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
• 1x Concentrate
• 1x Demonic Lore
• 1x Escape to the Wilds
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Harnfel, Horn of Bounty  ^Flip
• 1x Ignite the Future
• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Keep Watch
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Overflowing Insight
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Pygmy Kavu
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Rush of Knowledge
• 1x Scour the Laboratory
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Secrets of the Golden City
• 1x Showdown of the Skalds
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tales of the Ancestors
• 1x Theft of Dreams
• 1x Three Wishes
• 1x Tidings
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Vanish into Memory

Sorcery-Speed (+1/+1 Counters Theme) (3)

• 1x Armorcraft Judge
• 1x Give / Take
• 1x Parting Thoughts

Sorcery-Speed (Aristocrats Theme) (9)

• 1x Bankrupt in Blood
• 1x Blood Divination
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Reprocess
• 1x Skullmulcher
• 1x Vivisection

Sorcery-Speed (Artifacts Theme) (2)

• 1x One with the Machine
• 1x Reverse Engineer

Sorcery-Speed (Auras Theme) (1)

• 1x Sage's Reverie

Sorcery-Speed (Bicolored Theme) (1)

• 1x Niv-Mizzet Reborn

Sorcery-Speed (Big Creature Theme) (10)

• 1x Blessing of Frost
• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter
• 1x Hunter's Prowess
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Mouth / Feed
• 1x Nissa's Revelation
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Soul's Majesty

Sorcery-Speed (Big Permanent Theme) (1)

• 1x Keruga, the Macrosage

Sorcery-Speed (Cheerios Theme) (1)

• 1x Paradoxical Outcome

Sorcery-Speed (Coinflip Theme) (1)

• 1x Squee's Revenge

Sorcery-Speed (Decks With Four Or More Colors) (1)

• 1x Allied Strategies

Sorcery-Speed (Decks With Three Or More Colors) (1)

• 1x Painful Truths

Sorcery-Speed (Discard Theme) (1)

• 1x Dream Salvage

Sorcery-Speed (Enchantress Theme) (1)

• 1x Kruphix's Insight

Sorcery-Speed (Giant Commander) (1)

• 1x Fire Giant's Fury

Sorcery-Speed (High CMC Theme) (1)

• 1x Interpret the Signs

Sorcery-Speed (Library Manipulation Theme) (1)

• 1x Heed the Mists

Sorcery-Speed (Low CMC Theme) (1)

• 1x Ideas Unbound

Sorcery-Speed (Mill Theme) (2)

• 1x Into the Story
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Sorcery-Speed (Monocolored Decks) (2)

• 1x Flow of Ideas
• 1x Sanguimancy

Sorcery-Speed (Nontoken Creature Theme) (1)

• 1x Lead the Stampede

Sorcery-Speed (Planeswalker Theme) (1)

• 1x Jace's Triumph

Sorcery-Speed (Sacrificable Nontoken Permanents Theme) (1)

• 1x Morbid Curiosity

Sorcery-Speed (Sacrificable Permanents Theme) (2)

• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Reprocess

Sorcery-Speed (Sacrificing Enchantments Theme) (1)

• 1x Treacherous Blessing

Sorcery-Speed (Self-Mill Theme) (3)

• 1x Grim Flowering
• 1x Nature's Resurgence
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Sorcery-Speed (Snow Theme) (1)

• 1x Glacial Revelation

Sorcery-Speed (Token Theme) (1)

• 1x Shared Discovery

Sorcery-Speed (Tokens Theme) (7)

• 1x Camaraderie
• 1x Collective Unconscious
• 1x Minions' Murmurs
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• 1x Voice of Many

Sorcery-Speed (Tribal Birds Theme) (1)

• 1x Airborne Aid

Sorcery-Speed (Tribal Giant Theme) (1)

• 1x Fire Giant's Fury

Sorcery-Speed (Tribal Humans Theme) (1)

• 1x Mass Appeal

Sorcery-Speed (Tribal Spirits Theme) (1)

• 1x Ribbons of the Reikai

Sorcery-Speed (Tribal Theme) (2)

• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Pact of the Serpent

Sorcery-Speed (Tribal Vampires Theme) (1)

• 1x Champion of Dusk

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List of all pertinent "one-time burst" draw spells in EDH.

What this includes:

• Cards that will immediately bring you from few cards you can play to many cards you can play. (The reason you would want to play this over the other type of card draw is in very specific types of decks that need immediate and temporary card draw. For example, a control deck might not want to play out a sorcery speed steady card draw and opt for instant speed burst card instead. As another example, a deck with a very low curve might dump out their hand faster than sorcery speed steady card draw can refill it. For a final example, a deck built around drawing cards might prefer to trigger their abilities with spells that trigger them 7 times immediately over one that triggers it 14 times over the course of the game.) These cards fall under two types:
• Sorcery speed burst card draw, which can draw at least 3 cards for at most X+1 mana, where X is the number of cards that they draw.
• Instant speed burst card draw (including permanents who requires most of their mana be paid in the form of an activated ability), which can draw at least 3 cards for at most X-1 mana, where X is twice the number of cards that they draw.

What this doesn't include:

• Cards that oftentimes also refill opponents 3 or more cards.
• Cards that give an opponent a choice, unless you get the final choice after them (so Fact or Fiction is on this list but Manifold Insights is not).
• Cards that cost more than seven mana to fulfill previous requirements, make you lose more life than the number of cards being drawn, or make you skip your next turn. There are just too many better options.
• Necropotence, again. To repeat what I mention on the other list, the combination of the life payment with how opponents desire to kill you as soon as possible because you just played Necropotence makes this card more likely to lead to your loss than lead to your win (except in cEDH, of course).
• Cards that only do best in hellbent decks, since these cards are exactly the cards you DON'T want in a hellbent deck.
• Permanents, unless they have an ETB. This is self-explanatory, I'm sure.

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 44 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	111
Avg. CMC	4.33
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Demon X/X B, Foretell, Hippo 3/3 G, Wurm 6/6 G
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