Card text
Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.
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Mana cost
{X}{U}
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Card text
Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Read the Runes
Read the Runes (95) is a Blue Instant from Commander 2016 (C16). It costs {X}{U} and has mana value 1. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Oathbreaker.
Commander 2016 is a Commander product, released November 2016. Read the Runes has 3 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.
Card details
- Card number
- 95
- Set
- Commander 2016 (C16)
- Set type
- Commander
- Released
- 11 November 2016
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- Blue
- Colour identity
- Blue
- Mana cost
- {X}{U}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Read the Runes
Read the Runes in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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