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
This page covers the the list printing of Once Upon a Time (ELD-169), an Green Instant from The List Reprints (LIST). It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Brawl and 2 more formats.
We track no other printing of ELD-169 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
The List Reprints is The List, which reprints earlier cards. 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
- ELD-169
- Set
- The List Reprints (LIST)
- Set type
- The List
- Released
- —
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- The List
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- Green
- Colour identity
- Green
- Mana cost
- {1}{G}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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