Universal Surveillance

Sorcery

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Draw X cards.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

Darb_the_Bard on A fistful of Myr [Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch]

1 year ago

Here are some other card draw options for artifact decks like this: Reality Heist,Thoughtcast, Reverse Engineer, and Universal Surveillance. The ones with multiple blue pips may not be great for a 5-color deck, but I would want to include them if I were to lean heavier into blue. Improvise seems especially great since you can cast them during your first main phase, then let Urtet untap your myrs during combat. Shimmer Dragon could be great for the same reason.

Looks like a fun deck! I may want to build it myself...

Optimator on Ellie and Becky's Box of Tinker Toys

2 years ago

Some other noteworthy cards:

Cyberdrive Awakener - Research Thief - Imposter Mech - Master Transmuter - Ethersworn Sphinx - Ornithopter of Paradise - Replication Specialist - Kappa Cannoneer - Reality Heist - One with the Machine - Open the Vaults - Rise and Shine - Reverse Engineer - Universal Surveillance - Moonsilver Key - Manascape Refractor

Emphroy on Breya,the artifact recycler

2 years ago

Experimental Synthesizer
Thoughtcast
Universal Surveillance
Merchant's Dockhand
Nadier's Nightblade

DemonDragonJ on Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty

2 years ago

The fact that Universal Surveillance has improvise makes me wish that Explosive Singularity had convoke, as that would have saved much text on that card.

Drumbellower is awesome, and I cannot believe that it took WotC so long to print such a card, but why is it only a 2/1, for three mana? It could easily have been a 2/2, a 1/3, or even a 2/3, and not been overpowered for that cost. None of my current decks can use it, but I shall be certain to keep room for it in any future deck that I build that contains white but not green, and I do hope that WotC reprints it, to keep it available and affordable.

Most of the reprints in the accompanying Commander set are underwhelming, although several of them do have nice new artwork; why does it feel as if WotC is reprinting some of the same cards repeatedly? I am annoyed at another reprint of Exotic Orchard when Reflecting Pool is in much greater need of a reprint. If I did not know any better, I would say that WotC is being spiteful by deliberately not reprinting expensive cards, simply to torment the players.