Sorcerous Spyglass

Artifact

As this enters, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name.

Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Flarhoon13 on Blim's Blumpkins

3 months ago

Finally!!! Lost one, won one yesterday evening! Let's talk about the win. I attacked turn 4 with Blim, Comedic Genius, gifting Francois, on Gyrus, Waker of Corpses, an Oni Possession. Blim, Comedic Genius never attacked again, even though I cast him for 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 mana. Later in the game, I cast a Sorcerous Spyglass and found an infinite combo in Aubrey's large grip... Exquisite Blood and Enduring Tenacity. Seeing that, I decided not to name Francois' Chainsaw nor his Lightning Greaves. Instead, I named Blighted Fen, which never seemed to matter.

Francois used Gyrus, Waker of Corpses to kill Aubrey, sending exactly enough to get 5 damage through, past his only creature, Athreos, God of Passage. I had a Tormod's Crypt out but never used it.

On my penultimate turn, at 6 life, I cast a Nefarious Lich and a Chain Reaction, taking out Tendershoot Dryad and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride. I had about 9 cards in the yard, including AEther Flash, which had killed a Blood Artist and did a lot of work this game. A Demonic Collusion had found me a Blasphemous Act, which eventually took out Aubrey's Valgavoth, Terror Eater and several other blockers to allow Francois' kill shot on him. Auren was able to kill Francois. Auren passed turn to me while he was tapped out at 1 life with 5 tapped food, Night of the Sweets' Revenge in his graveyard, and his commander, Ygra, Eater of All making all creatures into delicious morsels. I made the ultimate top deck: Greed's Gambit. This allowed me to draw 9 cards with Nefarious Lich out. Among those nine was a Dark Petition which found me an Earthquake for the win. Finally!! Earthquake for 3 finally was enough to win the game.

Balaam__ on Balaam__

4 months ago

Sounds good legendofa. I looked over the Ixalan sets (…not my favorites…)

•Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip

•Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip

•Atzocan Seer definitely from the perspective of the dude reflected in the orb.

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These I’m not sold on.

•Heartless Pillage It’s a stretch, but it might be possible this is a first person view. (The Ixalan version, idk the abbreviation)

•Primal Amulet  ^Flip has hands coming from offscreen, but I don’t see how this is 1st person.

•Prosperous Pirates I think we see the tip of the guy’s hat on the far left, which would negate this being first person I suppose.

•Prying Blade I think the angle is too far off to count as FPP.

•Sorcerous Spyglass the ship is totally checking itself out in the reflection, making sure its sails are on point before it hits da harbor

•Treasure Map  ^Flip Regarding the Ixalan card art, at first I thought it was a pirate pointing at the map from their viewpoint using the dagger thingy, but no one’s holding the handle. It’s jammed into the map and wedged into the table. I don’t think this is anyone in particular’s perspective. The card art shown here might count though. Idk the abbreviation for the Ixalan set btw.

•Deadeye Rig-Hauler maybe this is the viewpoint of the hanging guy, maybe not.

•Gruesome Fate are we looking from a rat’s perspective? Does that count?

•Hunt the Weak Well, unless there are eyeballs inside the dinosaur’s mouth or unless we’re seeing this from the viewpoint of another creature about to be eaten that’s already inside the mouth, I guess this one doesn’t count. Pretty cool camera angle nonetheless.

Fluggleshmuggits on Cube Eternal

4 months ago

OUT
Memory Lapse
Bazaar Trademage
Nekrataal
Sidisi, Undead Vizier
Sinkhole
Cathartic Reunion
Thrashing Brontodon
Veil of Summer
Harmonize
Coiling Oracle
Burning-Tree Emissary
Sorcerous Spyglass

IN
Ninja of the Deep Hours
Brainsurge
Changeling Outcast
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Buried Alive
Seasoned Pyromancer
Loot, Exuberant Explorer
Elvish Reclaimer
Up the Beanstalk
Nadu, Winged Wisdom
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
Yggdrasil, Rebirth Engine

9-lives on Overwhelming Kindness

1 year ago

Where's your Peek or Sorcerous Spyglass type of cards?! They would be great with this commander!

legendofa on I fell and landed in Modern.

1 year ago

Would something like Pithing Needle or Sorcerous Spyglass help? Unless you have a planeswalker-heavy meta, The Immortal Sun would probably be a sideboard card anyway.

sergiodelrio on No sacrifice

1 year ago

Your best bet imho is to try and prevent activations with cards like Pithing Needle Cursed Totem Interdict Null Rod Phyrexian Revoker Sorcerous Spyglass Damping Matrix or Karn, the Great Creator

Some things will still fly under the radar tho and does not really help your Sauron I guess.

wallisface on Azorius Aggro-Control deck

1 year ago

To counter your points:

• You've changed the list since first read as Defiant Strike wasn't initially there - but this should never be in any deck aside from maybe some super-janky prowess build. But my point on Assemble the Players is that you need at least 2 creatures to make it worthwhile (which was the 5 turn estimate, re-read my post because I think you've misunderstood). Furthermore, you can only cast this card reasonably once you also have the mana to control your opponents turn as-well, so it's a super late game tool which won't really give you the value you're wanting. Mishra's Bauble doesn't help Assemble the Players at all because you have no flash-creatures, so there's no interval where you can make use of Assemble the Players with it.

• Your argument for keeping Oppressive Rays isn't a valid one, and shows a clear misunderstanding of how games typically play out. I feel like you're just digging-your-heels-in as opposed to taking-in actual advice and well-meaning criticism.

• With 11 counterspells, 16% of your cards are countermagic, which is a low-enough density that you can't assume to be reliably countering magic for long.

I've just noticed you're at 68 cards. Get down to 60. I remember having this discussion before with you - but if you're even remotely trying to take deck-building seriously, this is the first thing you need to do.

I see you've added Miscast to the deck... this is just a worse Spell Pierce.

I think Sorcerous Spyglass was in the deck initially but I should call out this is a sideboard-card at best. The vast majority of decks won't care at all about this card - a lot of cards don't have activated abilities.

Urza's Saga can only grab Mishra's Bauble so seems unideal to have here, but it's no biggie either way.

You still haven't let anyone know what your budget is!!

Kavle on Jester's Knowledge

1 year ago

Doing a quick search I found 4 cards to add to the list; Phyrexian Revoker, Soul of New Phyrexia, Sorcerous Spyglass, and That Which Was Taken.

Plus I looked up if replicate was an activated ability, and it is :D

So alot of these cards will counter that as well.