Sorcerous Spyglass
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #261 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.23 USD
As this artifact enters, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
Sorcerous Spyglass has 11 printings, first in Ixalan (2017). EDHREC ranks it #16,571 among Commander cards. It appears most in Isperia the Inscrutable decks (79 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: banned
Commanders that run Sorcerous Spyglass most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Isperia the Inscrutable: 79 decks
- Nebuchadnezzar: 38 decks
- Arachne, Psionic Weaver: 2 decks
- Echo, Perceptive Prodigy: 1 decks
- Myojin of Night's Reach: 1 decks
- Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal: 1 decks
Often played with Sorcerous Spyglass
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Sorcerous Spyglass affects cards regardless of what zone they're in. This includes cards in hand, cards in the graveyard, and exiled cards.
- : An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate.
- : You can't choose the name of a token unless that token has the same name as a card.
- : You can choose any card name, even if that card doesn't normally have an activated ability. You're not limited to the names of cards you saw in the opponent's hand.
- : Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities (such as equip) are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by the last ability of Sorcerous Spyglass.