Sift Through Sands

Instant — Arcane

Draw two cards, then discard a card.

If you cast a spell named Peer Through Depths and a spell named Reach Through Mists this turn, you may search your library for a card named The Unspeakable, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (14)

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Smrtlrafyr, Deceptive Scholar

Legendary Creature - Elder Spirit Horror

Flying, Trample, Hexproof

As long as you've cast a card named Sift Through Sands this turn, this card's name is considered The Unspeakable as long as it isn't on the battlefield.

Whenever ~ enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return any number of arcane cards from your graveyard to your hand.

8/11

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Create a card for the sisters of Flesh and Spirit.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Splice Onto Arcane Tribal: Kykar, Wind's Fury EDH

3 years ago

I know The Unspeakable is a terrible card, but it plus Reach Through Mists , Peer Through Depths and Sift Through Sands are just too perfect to not at least consider them. Pretty great with Firemind's Insight. You would have to remove Zirda as a companion, though. Also, if I recall correctly how splice works, Thousand-Year Storm should be pretty insane.

Zomgasa on Jodah

4 years ago

I really like Jodah decks, would defiantly say Warstorm Surge is worth it as an add and it combos with Enter the Infinate and Omniscience REALLY well for a "I hope you can stop this!" sort of turn.

Ancient Brontodon just feels vanilla in this deck, there are more interesting things than a 9/9 dude without trample or something more scary and harder to deal with. cough Blightsteel Colossus cough

Fusion Elemental is cool and you can cast him without NEEDing Jodah on the field, but same argument as the Brontodon, just boring.

Leyline Prowler and Rattleclaw Mystic are nifty, but nothing will be better than a Birds of Paradise or Noble Hierarch for that early game goodness!

I actuall like Pathrazer of Ulamog, he's big and hard to deal with. Ulamog's Crusher however, I'd rather play one of the Eldrazi Gods directly (depending on how the rest of your metta plays).

I don't understand what Wall of Runes, Feral Incarnation, or Opt do for you. Go for more direct land fetching, fix those colors! (by the way, I like the mana filter ideas, solid back-up plan that doesn't require foolish amounts of expensive lands!)

Peer Through Depths and Sift Through Sands are cute, but why not go bigger or something like Rhystic Study?

I love the direction and it looks like it plays well, but I would take it as more aggressive. Mana-ramp to get Jodah out as soon as you can and just start abusing his power!

WillowtheCouncil on Weirdly Arcane

4 years ago

Maybe Callow Jushi ? You can build up counters pretty fast, and then lock your opponent from playing stuff for a while. Also a pretty good clock. Cunning Bandit can be S.B. tech to essentially fog creatures for a while. Ore Gorger can be an expensive SB plan against some decks to wipe their lands away, but I'm iffy on it. You can also use Goblin Electromancer to help you cast spells. Also consider Sift Through Sands and The Unspeakable in the S.B.

IDK

ruler_of_mtg on Izzet Magistorm

5 years ago

Why use Reach Through Mists? That card is only worth it when you have Peer Through Depths and Sift Through Sands as well, so that you can free-cast The Unspeakable. Use a more competitive spell, like Opt, which is strictly better.

sg_86 on

6 years ago

Have you considered Reach Through Mists, Peer Through Depths, Sift Through Sands and The Unspeakable? They seem like they might work.

enortom on Narset - Multiplayer - Work In progress

6 years ago

If you want to add another creature you could add a The Unspeakable combo, search with Firemind's Foresight to find Peer Through Depths, Reach Through Mists and Sift Through Sands. its a cool interaction, but not really worth it.

TheAnnihilator on

6 years ago

Into the Roil or Cyclonic Rift is prolly better than Vapor Snag. Glimmer of Genius and Pull from Tomorrow are good inclusions. If you include Engulf the Shore, then it would be a nice synergy to play cards like Augur of Bolas too, since they'll come back to your hand (another example would be Omenspeaker).

The issue with the Peer Through Depths, Reach Through Mists, and Sift Through Sands combo stuff is that it's all very reliant on having it all at once in addition to the fact that both The Unspeakable and Delver of Secrets  ^Flip are very easy to remove, which makes it difficult to actually win. All it takes is a resolved Doom Blade and you will eventually run out of counters and can't win. The by and far best wincon for budget monoblue control is AEtherling, because it pumps, unblockables, and saves itself from virtually any type of removal by exiling itself. Elixir of Immortality is cute too.