Desperate Research
Sorcery
Mana cost: {1}{B}
How we read this card
Choose a card name other than a basic land card name. Reveal the top seven cards of your library and put all of them with that name into your hand. Exile the rest.
on-cast — puts cards into your hand
on-cast —
- makes exile a card
Causes: exile a card.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Research is one).
- The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Desperate Research, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Research is one).
When Desperate Research is cast:
- Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
- Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
- Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
- Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
- Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
- Kykar, Wind's Fury — makes a token
- Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature
424 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Desperate Research is one).
When Desperate Research is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.