Siphon Insight
Instant
Mana cost: {U}{B}
How we read this card
Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
on-cast —
- makes exile a card
on-cast — sets the top of a library
on-cast — taxes the table
Flashback {1}{U}{B}
Causes: exile a card.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Siphon Insight is one).
- The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Siphon Insight, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Siphon Insight is one).
When Siphon Insight is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — exiles a spell you control
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 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 (Siphon Insight is one).
When Siphon Insight 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.