Roll the Dice with The Deck of Many Things
The Deck of Many Things from the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set is a legendary artifact that embodies the precarious balance between fortune and peril. For five mana, it sits ready on your battlefield, daring you to risk everything for tremendous rewards. Its activated ability invites a roll of a d20 paired with a calculation that can either grant you powerful card advantage or force a harsh discard of your entire hand, echoing the card’s notorious reputation in Dungeons & Dragons lore. Playing it demands not only luck but savvy judgment, as the stakes constantly shift with each roll.
The scope of its effects ranges from retrieving a card from your graveyard to drawing two fresh cards, making it a flexible tool for decks that thrive on recursion and card draw synergy. The ultimate prize of summoning a creature from any graveyard onto your battlefield can turn the tide, but beware—should that creature perish, it spells your demise, adding a lethal strategic layer. It pairs well with graveyard-focused cards like Fabled Passage and creatures with death triggers that you want to manipulate. This artifact is a masterclass in risk versus reward, perfect for players who relish high-stakes gambits and dynamic gameplay.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost: {5}
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Card Type: Legendary Artifact
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Subtypes: —
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed):
2, Tap: Roll a d20 and subtract the number of cards in your hand. If the result is 0 or less, discard your hand.
1–9 | Return a card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
10–19 | Draw two cards.
20 | Put a creature card from any graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When that creature dies, its owner loses the game.
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Power / Toughness: —
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