the ruling is funny,
"i dont 5 cards"P1
"so,you still have to put in the graveyard"P2
Posted By:
Angelicarbiter
(9/26/2010 8:10:07 PM)
Too broken with Lord of Extinction because Tome Scour mills 5 cards from the top of your opponent's Library for just 1 Island each, making this card get an easy 20 Power and 20 Toughness boost.
Posted By:
RareCardHunter
(8/16/2010 4:40:06 PM)
Um, 1 card for 5 of yours? Sure, i'll take that deal anyday.....Wait, and it only cost me 1 mana? What a trade-off. People don't realize the strength of this card still. At ANY point when it's played, it can turn the tide on your opponent's gameplay. First few turns....you could mill away their land draw, middle and late game.....there goes their combo or win condition, or Planeswalker, Baneslayer or Titan! Card advantage in MTG is everything people!
Posted By:
guitargamer79
(10/12/2010 12:51:32 PM)
This, in my opinion, is the best card for library depletion ever no questions asked
Posted By:
Anson409
(3/3/2012 7:31:34 PM)
Exactly, Chosen of the Dark Sun. A lot of players just don't think of the game correctly, they think that this is good because you have a chance to mill a bomb. It is absolutely useless in that regard because your chances of milling the bomb equal your chances of milling them into drawing their bomb, or closer to it. Your library is a valuable resource in that you need it, but unless you are actively putting their library in jeopardy it doesn't matter whether they have twenty cards in it or thirty.
On the effectiveness of this card, brutally efficient. Sure, card disadvantage, but gets a good mill deck off to a running start. 4/5
Posted By:
1qazxsw
(3/4/2012 6:41:09 PM)
The moment this card had a chance for constructed standard, it cycled out.
Posted By:
Andromeiylochk
(9/30/2011 5:45:19 PM)
I'm kind of surprised that this card wasn't reprinted in Magic 2012 to interact with Innistrad's graveyard mechanics.
Posted By:
SirZapdos
(11/2/2011 1:56:26 PM)
Really wish they had reprinted this or a version that can only target opponents for Innistrad. Offensive mill isn't what it used to be!
Posted By:
dingophone
(11/18/2011 11:33:53 PM)
This is one of the best cards that is not a counterspell in one of the kooky formats I bet many of us have thought up at one point or another: Legacy Mental Magic where any card has any CMC and when you play a card as a rainbow land, it has all of the basic land types (so, just play with sleeves and no cards for the least confusion). (Chancellors/Leylines are obviously banned, btw.)
In this format, Tome Scour is a one card combo (well, two if you count the land to play it, since the format's so fast). When the five cards go into the graveyard, declare that three of them are Narcomoebas (putting them into play), one is a Dread Return, and the last is a Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. Flashback the Dread Return and you get a Jin on the field, which will give you insane card advantage.
Unfortunately though, this combo can be stopped with a Noxious Revival in response to the Dread Return. But still, unless ther... (see all)
Posted By:
ElMikkino
(12/16/2011 8:16:50 PM)
I see a lot of players use these in dedicated mill decks and I believe that's a mistake. In a typical game, you're going to need to mill 40-45 cards in order to win (Unless you're facing a dredge deck or some other type of deck that feature heavy self milling or drawing). A Tome Scour mills for 5 of the 45 cards necessary to win. 5/45 = 1/9. 1/9 of an opponent's starting life is 2.22. If you were to put Tome Scour in terms of a red burn spell, it would be roughly equivalent to a sorcery speed Shock that's unable to eliminate creature threats. Shock is already considered a mediocre card. Now imagine taking away the instant speed and ability to target creatures. That is why I believe that Tome Scour just doesn't cut it. I would probably use it if it milled 7, because then it would be roughly as efficient as Lava Spike / Bump in the Night.
It might be worth it to use it on yourself in a graveyard based deck, but I haven't see... (see all)
Posted By:
iUseBreakOpen
(1/11/2012 6:59:51 PM)