Claim the Apple

Apple of Eden, Isu Relic offers a compact but potent avenue to seize information and convert it into tempo. For a casting cost of {4} this legendary artifact lets you peek into an opponent's grip, exile the revealed cards face down and grant yourself permission to cast them that turn with any mana. The activation requires tapping, paying 4 life and sacrificing the artifact, and it reads like a toolbox: you take knowledge, you convert it into plays, and you can chain lands or spells while enabling card draw each time you cast that way until the turn ends. Timing matters because the effect is a sorcery speed activation and the exiled cards return at the next end step.

In play it reads as both disruption and engine. Use Apple of Eden to turn a stalled hand into answers or to fuel a combo line by borrowing an opponent's resource for a single decisive turn. From a deck building perspective this card rewards careful sequencing and mana flexibility since any color can be used to cast the borrowed cards. The piece fits thematically with Assassin's Creed by representing an Isu device that bends choice and knowledge, and it plays like a precision tool in skilled hands. If you want raw card advantage and calculated risk, this Near Mint edition is ready to slot into your list.

Card Details:

• Mana Cost – {4}
• Card Type – Legendary Artifact
• Subtypes –
• Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – {T}, Pay 4 life, Sacrifice Apple of Eden: Look at target opponent's hand and exile those cards face down. You may play those cards this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. Until end of turn, whenever you play a land or cast a spell this way, its owner draws a card. At the beginning of the next end step, return the exiled cards to their owner's hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Power / Toughness – N A