This is especially relevant in Constructed; you are looking for consistency and playing four copies of the majority of your cards.

Six spells and one land in Green-White Tokens: thats no good.

Riffle shuffling and pounding your cards in and out of your deck like cresting waves rocking the side of your boat, you hope for a better six cards.

You reach for your library, pull up the top card, and see this staring back at you.

If you mulligan below your starting hand size, you get to scry 1 after you decide to keep you handmeaning you look at the top card of your library and either leave it on the top or move it to the bottom.

Its not often that Magic has a major rules change that directly impacts so many gamesand this is one that happens before the first card is even played.

Whether you leave that card on the top or the bottom can decide everything.

Ship it to the bottom You draw one more spell early enough to press your advantage and win.

The entire game can rest on this one simple decision, which you might make in the span of just a few seconds before the game begins.

You are deciding if you want that card to join your current hand or not.

To help you make these decisions, first you need to know what youre looking for.

Lets say you keep a hand with four spells, ranging from two to four mana, and two lands of both your colors.

Youll want to keep that land so you can better cast your spells on time.

Lets say you have the following borderline hand in a typical-looking White-Blue Spirits Limited deck: Plains, Plains, Island, Island, Stormrider Spirit, Emissary of the Sleepless.

However, look at what it does: it doesnt fill the hole in your hand at all Its another five-mana card.

Furthermore, its a card you generally want to use to generate advantage with a quicker draw, not something thats going to be good if you skip playing anything for the first few turns.

Id put it on the bottom of my library with little hesitation.

If you draw an Island, youre ready to rollwhereas an extra Plains does very little for you.

You need to find an Island, and I would send away that Plains to bring you closer to finding the Island on time to play your three-drop on turn three.

There is a push and pull here with power level: if youre mana flooded and the top card of your library is, say, Descend upon the Sinful, you may want to keep it even though its not going to fill the gaps in your hand.

It can bail you out of a rough situation, and its incredibly strong and worth the draw step to keep.

Plus, if you have no way to shuffle, that also puts it on the bottom of your library, meaning that youre basically never going to draw it during the game.

You have an opening hand of Plains, Island, Island, Selfless Spirit, Spectral Shepherd, and Emissary of the Sleepless.

If you keep the Drifter, youre likely playing it turn fourbut thats not very impressive.

No, its not the land you need to get to your five-drop or to cast your four-dropbut youll likely find one of those, and if you do, then you have a perfect curve.

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