MTG Salvation

OOF. It's not quite Thoughtseize, but it's still a 2 mana Dark Inquiry/Duress with a half-scry. My new unfavorite control card to face in standard.

It's objectively better scry if you're using graveyard recursion/matters mechanics, and usually worse if you aren't. It's sort of halfway between Scry and Explore.

(Also, hopefully they'll be better options than a Dread Wanderer, considering that's going to rotate out.)

Be a lot cooler and playable if it were an instant.
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Quote from Jacmess »

Be a lot cooler and playable if it were an instant.
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Other than like Kolaghan's Command, very little to NO discard spells are instant-speed. By also adding Surveil, this card does a lot of work for 2 mana, so it seems appropriate to be a sorcery, in my opinion. As instant speed, it would be TOO good.

Reasonably powerful disruption with potential for obscene upside if there are sufficient graveyard strategies.

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I would argue that this is a strictly better scry.

For the most part, you're right. It is better than Scry or equal with Scry in virtually every situation. There are very few scenarios in which Scry would be preferred. However, it's not strictly better. An opposing recursion or mill deck wants you to have Surveil rather than Scry. But, those are fairly narrow situations.

The big one however is Limited. Milling yourself is risky. You're likely starting with a 40 card deck. Unless one person is playing a highly aggressive deck, it's not unusual for games to end because someone got milled.