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Library of Leng

Masters Edition IV (ME4)

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Artifact

You have no maximum hand size. If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal

Used in 13 known combosEDHREC #3,019

Versions

14 printings · from $3.37

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Rulings

9 · latest Oct 1, 2009
  • WotCOct 1, 2009

    If multiple effects modify your hand size, apply them in timestamp order. For example, if you put Null Profusion (an enchantment that says your maximum hand size is two) onto the battlefield and then put Library of Leng onto the battlefield, you'll have no maximum hand size. However, if those permanents entered in the opposite order, your maximum hand size would be two.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    If more than one card is discarded due to a single effect, the Library allows you to decide whether or not to use it on each of the cards. You get to decide the order the cards are placed on the library if more than one goes there.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    Since the card goes directly to the library, the card is not revealed unless the spell or ability requiring the discard specifically says it is.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    The ability applies any time a spell or ability has you discard as part of its effect. It does not matter if you or your opponent control the spell or ability. The discard is forced because it is an effect.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    The ability replaces the normal discard action with a discard action that puts the card on the library instead of the graveyard.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    The discard triggers anything else that triggers on discards.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    This effect has no effect on the cards being put into the graveyard from a library, because they are not "discarded".

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    You can look at a randomly discarded card before deciding where it goes.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    You can't use the Library of Leng ability to place a discarded card on top of your library when you discard a card as a cost, because costs aren't effects.