Card text
If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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Mana cost
{1}{G}
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Card text
If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerBanned
- ModernBanned
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricBanned
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time (169) is a Green Instant from Throne of Eldraine (ELD). It costs {1}{G} and has mana value 2. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Brawl and 2 more formats.
Throne of Eldraine is a main expansion, released October 2019. Once Upon a Time has 4 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Card details
- Card number
- 169
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine (ELD)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 4 October 2019
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- Green
- Colour identity
- Green
- Mana cost
- {1}{G}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Once Upon a Time
Other printings of Once Upon a Time in Throne of Eldraine
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Once Upon a Time in other sets
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