Sylvan Library
Enchantment
At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
Illustrated by Harold McNeill · Pro Tour Collector Set (PTC)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
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Special Guests #155 mythic 2026-04-24
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Secret Lair Drop #2058 rare 2025-06-16
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Dominaria Remastered #441 mythic 2023-01-13
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Dominaria Remastered #350 mythic 2023-01-13
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Dominaria Remastered #179 mythic 2023-01-13
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Legacy Championship #2021C mythic 2021-11-21
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Commander Collection: Green #5 rare 2020-12-04
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Magic Online Promos #43636 rare 2017-06-17
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Eternal Masters #187 rare 2016-06-10
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Legendary Cube Prize Pack #88 rare 2015-11-18
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Vintage Masters #235 rare 2014-06-16
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Magic Online Promos #23948 rare 2013-01-11
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Commander's Arsenal #17 rare 2012-11-02
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Masters Edition #133 rare 2007-09-10
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Fifth Edition #329 rare 1997-03-24
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Pro Tour Collector Set #pp273 rare 1996-05-01
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Pro Tour Collector Set #bl273 rare 1996-05-01
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Fourth Edition #273 rare 1995-04-01
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Legends #207 uncommon 1994-06-01
Rulings
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You always perform your normal draw before this ability. The normal draw occurs before anything can be placed on the stack during a player’s draw step.
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If you control other triggered abilities that allow you to draw cards during your draw step, you can choose to order Sylvan Library’s ability before or after those abilities. Triggered abilities controlled by other players will resolve before triggered abilities you control.
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Any cards drawn prior to Sylvan Library’s ability resolving, including in your upkeep or in response to Sylvan Library’s triggered ability, can be chosen to be put back using this effect. Sylvan Library’s controller is responsible for keeping these cards distinguishable in hand, such as by keeping them separate from cards that began the turn in hand.
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If you control more than one Sylvan Library, the triggered ability of each will resolve in sequence. You don’t get to draw all the cards at once and then put them all back at once.
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You can put back zero, one, or two cards.
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If you choose to draw two cards, then replace one or more of those draws with some other effect, the rest of Sylvan Library’s ability still happens. If you’ve actually drawn only one card that turn, you must choose that card and either pay 4 life or put it on top of your library. If you haven’t actually drawn any cards that turn, the rest of the ability has no effect.
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It’s not possible to take any actions between drawing the cards and choosing two cards. You can’t cast the cards you drew to avoid having two cards to choose.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking 100.0% of lists
- Aerid Konstrari 40.0% of lists
- Tifa Lockhart 28.6% of lists
Legacy
- Selesnya Depths 11.1% of lists
Premodern
- Gruul Sligh 100.0% of lists
- Naya Terragedon 100.0% of lists
- Selesnya Land Destruction 100.0% of lists
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- 75.0% of lists
- 4c Aluren 33.3% of lists
- Selesnya Enchantress 20.6% of lists
- Other 14.0% of lists