Description
Puzzle the Spellcaster
Confounding Riddle is a compact utility instant that gives you a choice between digging for answers or shutting down an opponent plan. Confounding Riddle lets you inspect the top four cards of your library and pull one into your hand while sending the others to the graveyard. That option supports graveyard synergies and late game selection in a single two mana play with an extra blue pip for color identity.
The alternate mode presents a tax on opposing plays. Counter target spell unless its controller pays 4 which projects a soft lock against single threats and forces difficult decisions during midrange matches. Confounding Riddle fits into tempo, control, and delve focused builds from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan and reads as a pragmatic inclusion when you need card selection or a conditional counter on demand.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {2}{U}
- Card Type – Instant
- Subtypes –
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Choose one: Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Counter target spell unless its controller pays 4.
- Power / Toughness – N A
- Loyalty – N A