Card text
Look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of the piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
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Mana cost
{2}{U}
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Card text
Look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of the piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Riddles in the Dark
This page covers the extended art printing of Riddles in the Dark (292), an Blue Instant from The Hobbit (HOB). It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 6 more formats.
We track no other printing of 292 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
The Hobbit is a main expansion, released August 2026. Riddles in the Dark has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
Look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of the piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Card details
- Card number
- 292
- Set
- The Hobbit (HOB)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 14 August 2026
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Extended Art
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- Blue
- Colour identity
- Blue
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Riddles in the Dark
Other printings of Riddles in the Dark in The Hobbit
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Riddles in the Dark in other sets
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