Test of Talents
Instant
Mana cost: {1}{U}
How we read this card
Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
on-cast —
- makes counter an instant
- makes counter a sorcery
on-cast — searches a library
- makes search spell
on-cast —
- makes shuffle a library
on-cast — draws you cards
- makes draw a card
Causes: counter an instant, counter a sorcery, search spell , shuffle a library, draw a card.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a library is searched — 982 cards in the game can cause this (Test of Talents is one).
When a spell searches a library thanks to Test of Talents:
- River Song — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Archivist of Oghma — gains you 1 life
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Ob Nixilis, Unshackled — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Test of Talents is one).
When Test of Talents makes a player draw a card:
- Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
- Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
- Aether Syphon — mills a card
- Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted — deals 1 damage
- The Locust God — makes a token
- Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
- Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
- Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
- Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
- Orcish Bowmasters — deals 1 damage
57 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Test of Talents is one).
When Test of Talents 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
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- 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 (Test of Talents is one).
When Test of Talents 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.