Choose Your Demise
Scheme
OE01Archenemy: Nicol Bolas Schemes#4★common
Oversized
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Illustrator
- Nils Hamm
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Constructed
StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyNot legal
VintageNot legal
PauperNot legal
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CommanderNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderNot legal
PreDHNot legal
OathbreakerNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
Arena
AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
Other
PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
When you set this scheme in motion, 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 those piles. Put the cards in that pile into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Plays as:
Library Manipulation
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Rulings
3 · latest Jun 13, 2017
- WotCJun 13, 2017
The split doesn't have to be even. The piles can be split with a single card in one pile and three cards in another. A pile can even have zero cards in it—in this case, an opponent chooses whether to put all the cards into your hand or into your library.
- WotCJun 13, 2017
You choose one opponent to make the final choice of which pile is put into your hand, but all players may discuss and advise this choice.
- WotCJun 13, 2017
You don't have to reveal the cards in the face-down pile, no matter which zone they're put into. Resist the urge to gloat at the heroes if their decision serves your master plan.