Vanguard Cardfight!! Vanguard Card of the Day Archive — Pojo. Friday, November 12, Message Board Contact Us. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. David Fanany Player since Phat Pack Magic YouTube. James H. From the often ridiculed Homelands set, Merchant Scroll is a great Type I shuffling effect, adding an Ancestral Recall or Mana Drain to your hand on top of the shuffling.
Going further down the line, and outside of the Eudogames format into Old School 96 : from Alliances, Diminishing Returns too can be a very powerful shuffling effect. But it is Thawing Glaciers that actually may have the longest history of successful collaboration with the Library.
The Glaciers are already great in themselves, fixing your mana in both quantity and colors while generating card advantage, but as they do so you quickly end up with two of those which mean you can shuffle every turn! In that case, it does indeed remove them, unlike a shuffle effect that keeps them in the library.
It may seem strange to mill. But to win in a control deck, filtering cards that way results in virtual card-advantage as for instance useless lands that would have gotten drawn are replaced by useful spells, sculpting your hand to be ready for everything. Orcish Librarian : nope. That one does it all by himself, he does his own shuffle, and he sort of let you choose among 4 and then less, so it pretty much has the SLS all included in one card and would make the Sylvan Library quite redundant : the librarian is awesome, and is the secret magical overpowered core of Sligh.
Books are good! Maybe what I really should be doing is an article about LoL? Anyways, SL is a quite interesting anti-discard measure. Another card that you would keep on top is the Balance. Of course this would sometimes come at a cost, if you have a card you need to keep on top, then you lose the opportunity to use the SLS for profit.
The normal order of things with SL is that you draw the great cards and try to shuffle away the lesser ones. Still, as an added bonus to all it can do for you, know that : Sylvan Library can save your life in the face of discard.
It can be quite skill-testing to play that way, as you have to measure the costs of not shuffling versus the benefit of keeping the potentially crucial card away from discard measures, which in my book is a definite plus! The first clear way to do that is just to go ahead and spend your life points. The means to gain life are in short supply in those old school formats, although things get a bit better with Ice Age and Zuran Orb. Ivory Tower is probably the first card that comes to mind when we think of life gain in Old School.
You could try to add another effect that would let you get to 8 cards during your upkeep. Such effects are usually excellent card-advantage effects in their own right, and might just pile-up and make the SL secondary Library of Alexandria, Jayemdae Tome , or they might combine wonderfully with it Land Tax, Thawing Glaciers , or none of the above and then some less Library of Leng, again?
Another famous way to gain life is Mirror Universe, that card has so much potential you often build your deck around it, as in the Mirrorball-Sylvan Mirror deck :. There are some major cons to it, especially when using the modern rules. Still, in a format poor in life-gaining tool, I think that card can and should be considered in some decks where it would be a three-pronged weapon : a creature removal of sort, a life gaining tool, and a part of a card advantage engine. Swords to Plowshares is the best creature removal of all time.
In other words SL will regularly make StP a poor card! There are as far as I know three playable cards that combine with the Sylvan Library to generate card advantage by exploiting the knowledge it gives you of your top card : Sindbad, Petra Sphinx and Vexing Arcanix. That vexing card can actually make for a decent wincon too!
At the beginning of your draw phase, the rules require that you draw before anything else happens. Then, Sylvan Library can be put on the stack along with anything else that triggers during the draw phase.
This means that you can do other things in there besides just do all of the Sylvan at one time. Finally, when you put cards back, you can put back any of the cards you've drawn this turn. I'll repeat it: you can put back any of the cards you've drawn this turn.
In 5-color, this often means that people choose the best 2 cards out of 4, or the best 3 cards out of 5, usually by sacrificing a Jeweled Bird , Mind Stone , or Phyrexian Furnace.
The same trick can apply in any format. Any draw card effect during your upkeep works the same way. If you drew cards during your upkeep from a Psychic Vortex or Arcane Denial , if you draw cards with a Jushi Apprentice during the draw step, however you draw them, you get to keep the best of all of them , putting two back if you want to avoid losing some life.
Let's say, on the other hand, that you aren't ready for a card yet. Maybe you aren't ready to cast that Treachery or Haunting Echoes , but you want to keep it handy. After you've looked at it with Sylvan, put it back on top of your library.
On the following turn, draw the card during your draw phase, and if you want to, use some effect in your deck to shuffle or rearrange the library. When you activate the Sylvan, if you still decide you aren't ready for that card you've saved, put it back on the top of your library and you can do the same thing again another time! Sylvan Library 's wording is somewhat odd; in essence, if you fail to draw cards, from a Possessed Portal for example, activating the Sylvan Library does not make you lose eight life.
If you activate Sylvan Library , you lose life if you don't put back two of the cards you've drawn so far this turn. If you activate Sylvan Library and you never end up successfully drawing the cards, you won't lose life.
Enter Abundance. What does it do? Well, Abundance can be activated to replace your draw with its own effect. Therefore, if you activate Abundance for each of your draws including the two Sylvan draws , you never actually draw a card. Instead, you get to reveal a card with the Abundance three times and keep all three without losing life. Another big replacement combo is Pursuit of Knowledge. Replace your three draws with three study counters, and get seven cards instead!
With a Words of War , spend 3 mana and do 2 damage to three targets. With Words of Worship , spend 3 mana and gain 15 life! One caveat: the Sylvan tries to accomplish as much as it can. The Sylvan knows when you draw cards, and if you don't put any back, it hurts you for failing to do so. On the other hand, multiple Sylvans can mean more and more replacement effects.
So, two Sylvan Library and a Words of Wilding can add up to 5 Bears a turn, if you want to spend the mana. Two Sylvan Libraries does not add up to looking at five cards and then chosing to put back four.
Sylvan Libraries go on the stack one at a time, and you can't do anything while they are resolving just like any other ability. You can certainly activate two of them, but you'll need to either pay life on that first Sylvan or manipulate the library before the second one goes off if you want it to get much out of it.
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