Okay, so the way I play, which is as fair as I can assume, is if you don't know the cards ruling either don't use the card or use it in a passive way. However, my friend decided that he will use it in his own way of understanding even though we found nothing online indicating anyone uses Future Sight in his understanding. He said that he can keep playing the next card on top of his library one after another on the same turn, as long as he is paying the mana for the card. Which is my sense would be playing up to 4 desecration demons on the field in one turn one after another if they all were drawn one after another. Which in my understanding is way to much of an overkill ability for any card and does not seem logical at all. Am I wrong or is he only allowed to play that one card per turn.
The card only states: play with your top card face up, it doesn't say you may play multiple cards this way.
Future Sight allows its controller to play a card that he or she otherwise wouldn't be able to play, so long as that card is the top card of the library. If your opponent just so happened to have four Desecration Demon cards all stacked on top of each other like that in his library, then as long as he had the mana to pay for all four of those, then he would indeed have been able to cast all four of them one after another on the same turn.
If Future Sight restricted its controller to only being able to play one card from the library per turn, it would say so. But the card has no such restriction, and so what your opponent did was legal.
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If I understand you correctly, your friend is correct. You're able to play the card from the top of your library as per the second ability of the enchantment. The first just makes it so everyone can see what it is. Now when you cast the top card, the next card beneath it will be revealed. And there is absolutely no limit to how many times you can repeat this, provided you can pay for it that many times.
Just as there is no limit to the number of cards you can play from your hand, there is also no limit to the number of cards you can play per turn through Future sight's ability.
It is quite literal in what it does. You play with the top card of your library revealed and you may play the top card of your library.
If you play the top card, it stops being on top of your library and a new card is now revealed. Future Sight still says that you may play the top card of your library, so you can play that one too, if you are able to pay the costs (or haven't played a land, if it's a land).
Future Sight's ability that lets you cast from the top of your library is a static ability, which means that it always applies and is not limited to once per turn.
You still need to actually be able to play each card (so if you hit two lands in a turn, that will, in most situations, stop you chaining cards), and you are only granted the ability to 'play' the cards, not do other things like use cycling.
Edit: Wow, beaten to it by not one, not two, but three people.
So I guess my next question is, is there a swamp based card that is similar to Future Sight?
Not a rulings question, so doesn't really belong here but to answer you: no, there is not a black card that has the same effect as Future Sight, nor is there any that I'd say are really comparable. Different colors do different things, and Future Sight is a very blue card.
The card only states: play with your top card face up, it doesn't say you may play multiple cards this way.
Please use card tags in the future. ~parinoid
If Future Sight restricted its controller to only being able to play one card from the library per turn, it would say so. But the card has no such restriction, and so what your opponent did was legal.
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format
Minimum deck size: 60
Maximum number of identical cards: 4
Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall
If I understand you correctly, your friend is correct. You're able to play the card from the top of your library as per the second ability of the enchantment. The first just makes it so everyone can see what it is. Now when you cast the top card, the next card beneath it will be revealed. And there is absolutely no limit to how many times you can repeat this, provided you can pay for it that many times.
It is quite literal in what it does. You play with the top card of your library revealed and you may play the top card of your library.
If you play the top card, it stops being on top of your library and a new card is now revealed. Future Sight still says that you may play the top card of your library, so you can play that one too, if you are able to pay the costs (or haven't played a land, if it's a land).
You still need to actually be able to play each card (so if you hit two lands in a turn, that will, in most situations, stop you chaining cards), and you are only granted the ability to 'play' the cards, not do other things like use cycling.
Edit: Wow, beaten to it by not one, not two, but three people.
Not a rulings question, so doesn't really belong here but to answer you: no, there is not a black card that has the same effect as Future Sight, nor is there any that I'd say are really comparable. Different colors do different things, and Future Sight is a very blue card.
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Not really a rulings question, but Null Profusion, Griselbrand, Necropotence, Greed, Yawgmoth's Bargain and Erebos, God of the Dead all allow you to play large numbers of additional spells per turn in a black deck and are not one-shot effects, somewhat like Future Sight.