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Advice from the Fae

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Blue. Sorcery

two generic mana or one blue manatwo generic mana or one blue manatwo generic mana or one blue mana

No. 28What the codes mean

Advice from the Fae

Shadowmoor #28 · Illustrated by Chippy

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Non-foil · Shadowmoor #28

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Foil · Shadowmoor #28

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Oracle text

(two generic mana or one blue mana can be paid with any two mana or with one blue mana. This card's mana value is 6.)

Look at the top five cards of your library. If you control more creatures than each other player, put two of those cards into your hand. Otherwise, put one of them into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperNot legal
BrawlNot legal

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Card details

First printed
2008
Printings
1
Mana value
6
EDHREC rank
#22,990 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Artist
Chippy

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Shadowmoor card (#28).

28

  • 28Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.

Cards from 1998 to mid-2014 print the collector number over the set's card count (like 90/383) next to the copyright line. They have no rarity letter, set code or language code: the set symbol and its colour show the set and rarity.

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Rulings (5)

  1. 2008-05-01

    If a cost includes more than one monocolored hybrid mana symbol, you can choose a different way to pay for each symbol. For example, you can pay for Advice from the Fae by spending one blue manaone blue manaone blue mana, two generic manaone blue manaone blue mana, four generic manaone blue mana, or six generic mana.

  2. 2008-05-01

    A card with monocolored hybrid mana symbols in its mana cost has a mana value equal to the highest possible cost it could be cast for. Its mana value never changes. Thus, Advice from the Fae has a mana value of 6, even if you spend one blue manaone blue manaone blue mana to cast it.

  3. 2008-05-01

    In a multiplayer game, compare the number of creatures you control with the number of creatures each other player controls. If any single player controls at least as many creatures as you, you get to put only one card into your hand.

  4. 2008-05-01

    If an effect reduces the cost to cast a spell by an amount of generic mana, it applies to a monocolored hybrid spell only if you've chosen a method of paying for it that includes generic mana.

  5. 2008-05-01

    A card with a monocolored hybrid mana symbol in its mana cost is each of the colors that appears in its mana cost, regardless of what mana was spent to cast it. Thus, Advice from the Fae is blue, even if you spend six black mana to cast it.

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