Well of Knowledge

Artifact

(2): Draw a card. Any player may play this ability but only during his or her draw step.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (29)

Vulnoth on Equestrian Friendship Initiative

3 months ago

Suggestions:

• Ash Barrens, Evolving Wilds, and Terramorphic Expanse with Command Tower, Command Power Plant, and Command Mine. 3 land swap to replace land consistency with mana flexibility.
• the 10 Ravnica signets with: Reliquary Tower, Reflecting Pool, Path of Ancestry, The World Tree, Second City, Exotic Orchard, Reflective Gate, Commander's Sphere, Vexing Puzzlebox, and Guided Passage. 10 artifacts for 7 lands, 2 artifacts, and 1 sorcery [10 total]. This reduces rate of low/no-land hands while still offering mana flexibility and other utility.
• 2 of each basic land for the OG duals: Savannah, Scrubland, Taiga, Bayou, Underground Sea, Plateau, Tundra, Tropical Island, Volcanic Island, Badlands. This increases consistency in mana flexibility.
• Kibo, Uktabi Prince with Yes Man, Personal Securitron. Direct group hugging that ultimately rewards you when Yes dies.
• Harrow with The Ring Goes South. Due to the high density of Legends, this will simply net more lands.
• Tempt with Mayhem with Brass's Tunnel-Grinder. This replaces a situational spell with a short-term hand filter that turns into a value engine land after transforming.
• Skyscribing with Choice of Fortunes. This swaps a costly recurring draw/big draw spell with a draw 2 that also grands infinite hand size.
• Noble Heritage with Noble Benefactor. This trades a temperamental protection for an easily activated tutor.
• Caged Sun with Chromatic Orrery. Caged Sun does not well benefit 5color decks, while Orrery perfectly mana fixes while flexing as a draw engine if necessary.
• Well of Knowledge for Dictate of Kruphix. Kruphix does it for free. Benevolent Offering for Selvala, Explorer Returned. Lower impact but Selvala is stable resource generation plus mana and life.
• Fact or Fiction with Defense of the Heart. Unfortunately FoF is a one-shot injection of cards while Defense pulls creatures of your choice to better toolbox situations.
• Alliance of Arms, The Second Doctor, and Acorn Catapult with Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Norn's Annex. Pillow forting a little always helps.
• Plated Pegasus with Wheel of Fortune. Spell damage is less common than abilities, so better replace it with a hand refill.

Try these out.

legendofa on Fun cards make fun decks

1 year ago

I would start by looking for cards with "any player may [...]"-type effects like Endbringer's Revel, Well of Knowledge, or Tidal Barracuda. One thing to keep in mind is that active games are usually considered more fun than static games. If the people you play with like Standstill effects, then absolutely put it in. But I would lean more into the group hug idea and focus on keeping the game moving.

Or if you're looking for cards that set up mini games and mind games, something like Master of Predicaments, Reverse the Sands, or clash cards could fit in.

PaulMuadDib on Judge tower

2 years ago

I pulled a few from manaless dredge because they can be confusing.
Narcomoeba -- This is a good one to watch for with the mill effects you have
Salvage Titan -- recurrence from graveyard, could easily be missed
Vengevine -- another classic recurrence from graveyard
Prized Amalgam -- could be easy to miss it leaving graveyard with these other graveyard creatures
Sword of the Meek -- ditto

Raging River -- confusing attack enchantment
Launch the Fleet -- strive targeting effect
Well of Knowledge -- conditional effect plus card draw
Night Soil -- this one exiles the two creatures as a cost, might be worth weirdness
Hoarder's Greed -- choice + draw cards
Vodalian Illusionist -- phasing
Shimmering Efreet -- more phasing
Chandra, Pyromaster -- I noticed you didn't add any planeswalkers, here's a random suggestion
Yawgmoth's Will -- more recurrence from graveyard
Balduvian Shaman -- turns a white enchantment to colorshift and add cumulative upkeep
Tombstone Stairwell -- creates creatures to aid in confusing rules
Panglacial Wurm -- classic judge's tower card, once you search a library you have to cast it
Hexdrinker -- slightly confusing level up ability plus possible "protection from everything" ability

Max_Hammer on

3 years ago

Howdy! I have some recommendations!

• Umbral Mantle can give you an infinite/infinite if you equip it to a myr, or just give you a lot of untaps. Not that you can't do that already, but this gives you an extra +2/+2.

• Oblivion Stone is an excellent board-wipe. Drop it turn four and slowly but surely just mark everything that's yours. And you could use it as a negotiation tool. "If you murder his commander, I'll keep that combo piece of yours safe."

• Well of Knowledge reads weird, but it's basically saying "(2): Draw a card. Any player may play this ability but only during his or her draw step." It'll be good for everyone, but better for you.

• Mirrorpool is just good utility.

• Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip is good ramp and lets you just say "Actually, no, that creature isn't attacking."

• Luminarch Ascension is going to give you as many white angels as your heart can handle.

• Illusionist's Bracers is just going to double whatever fuckery you're up to.

• Mask of Avacyn, Lightning Greaves, and Swiftfoot Boots are all excellent protection for your boy.

EnbyGolem on How Good is Book of …

4 years ago

I’ve personally gotten way more mileage out of Well of Knowledge. It’s cheaper and there really doesn’t seem to be a downside. The only opponents who tend to use it are ones that are desperate and trying to recover; the player ahead is very rarely going to need it. Helping stabilize those other behind players usually curries good favors later on down the road and only provide more collective opportunities to deal with the biggest threat at the table.

That being said, Book of Rass is still a really neat effect and might be a good pairing with Well, especially if you like running those old-school cards :)

legendofa on How Good is Book of …

4 years ago

I'll give Book of Rass credit for being the second-most mana-efficient pure colorless card (not Devoid) that effects only you and doesn't sacrifice itself for the draw. That's a really narrow category, but almost every other option taps or sacrifices itself, or has a color identity. The other options are Diviner's Wand (less efficient for pure draw, but has other useful abilities), Well of Knowledge (anyone can use this), and Mindless Automaton (my choice for most mana efficient pure colorless etc. etc.)

Of course, I would expect artifact untapping and recursion to go into pretty much every artifact-centric deck, and even white, the weakest at pure draw, has been getting comparable options that are at least as good in color.

Is it a truly bad card? I don't think so. It's just outclassed by a lot of really good cards. It's an "if you have no other option" card.

CaptainToll on Are there any old cards …

5 years ago

Cadaverous Bloom has never let me down in Tasigur. Combine it with Well of Knowledge or Idle Thoughts to draw your whole deck or use it to fuel massive x-spells.

Rhadamanthus on Mana Question - How old …

5 years ago

It sounds like you're remembering a house rule. There was a period of time when mana could carry through steps in the same phase (for example: you used to be able to get mana from Thran Turbine during your upkeep step and spend it on Well of Knowledge during your draw step, since it was all part of the Beginning Phase), but there was never a time when mana stayed up all the way through the end of the turn.