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Blurry Visionary

Mystery Booster 2 • #526 • rare
Creature — Human Wizard |
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Blurry Visionary

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Live Value $0.24
Foil Multiplier: Flat Baseline (1.0x)
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Never reprinted since its original release.

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Oracle Data

Card Type Creature — Human Wizard
Color Identity Blue
Power / Toughness 3 / 2
🖋️ Curator's Notes
When Blurry Visionary enters the battlefield, look at the top two cards of your library and put them back-to-back in the same sleeve with either card in front. They become a modal double-faced card for the rest of the game. Then put that card into your hand. (You can play either face of that double-faced card. Make sure to reset it when the game ends.)
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And if that’s not complicated enough, similarly, if one of the top two cards of your library is a transforming double-faced card, you put it into the new sleeve with either face of the card facing outward, and it still becomes a modal double-faced card at the end. So, for example, if your top two cards are Brainstorm and the transforming double-faced card Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration, you will end up with a modal double-faced card in one of the following permutations: Brainstorm // Delver of Secrets, Brainstorm // Insectile Aberration, Delver of Secrets // Brainstorm, Insectile Aberration // Brainstorm. Note, however, that Insectile Aberration, like most back faces of transforming double-faced cards, has no mana cost, so it is normally not possible to play that card from your hand.

The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that’s being considered. On the stack or the battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different from how the mana value of a transforming double-faced card is determined.

Playtest cards use a modified version of game symbols, such as {T} and {W}. These modified symbols should be treated as the standard symbols during play.

To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you’re playing and ignore the other face’s characteristics.

If your library has only one card in it when Blurry Visionary’s ability resolves, it won’t make that card a modal double-faced card, but you will put it into your hand.

If one of the top two cards of your library is already a double-faced card, put it into the new sleeve with either of its two faces facing outward. Only the outward face will be part of the new modal double-faced card, while the inward one ceases to exist for the rest of the game. For example, if the top two cards of your library are Brainstorm and the modal double-faced card Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter, you will end up with a modal double-faced card that has Brainstorm as one of its faces, and either Valki, God of Lies or Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter as the other face, with either face as the front (your choice).

For many playtest cards, you’ll need to make a generous assumption that basic game rules would be updated to allow them to work. The Mystery Booster 2 Playtest Card Notes section (reproduced here in individual Gatherer rulings) provides guidance for fitting these cards into the existing rules structure.

More complicated scenarios involving two different double-faced cards or multiple Blurry Visionary triggers affecting the same card over and over will be left as an exercise for the reader.

Playtest cards aren’t legal for play in any tournament format other than Mystery Booster Limited formats. On the other hand, we expect they will spice up a wide variety of non-tournament games (as long as everyone’s on the same page about using them!).

If an effect allows you to put a card with particular characteristics onto the battlefield without instructing you to play or cast it, consider only the characteristics of a modal double-faced card’s front face to see if that card qualifies. If it does, it enters the battlefield with its front face up.

A modal double-faced card can’t be transformed or be put onto the battlefield transformed (even if one of its faces was formerly part of a transforming double-faced card). Ignore any instruction to transform a modal double-faced card or to put one onto the battlefield transformed.

If an effect allows you to play a land or cast a spell from among a group of cards, you may play or cast a modal double-faced card with any face that fits the criteria of that effect.

Once Blurry Visionary’s ability finishes resolving, you can’t change which face of the new modal double-faced card is the front face. It stays that way for the rest of the game.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 2024-08-02
Artist Reference: Sergei Ryzhov
Border Profile: black
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard
Promo Status playtest
Edition Status Original Printing

Sanctioned Formats

standard not_legal
modern not_legal
legacy not_legal
commander not_legal
pioneer not_legal
pauper not_legal
vintage not_legal
brawl not_legal
explorer not_legal
penny not_legal
predh not_legal
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