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Analyze the Pollen
Sorcery
rare
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 8. (Exile cards with total mana value 8 or greater from your graveyard.) Search your library for a basic land card. If evidence was collected, instead search your library for a creature or land card. Reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Semantic Tags
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.
Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.
Puts additional lands onto the battlefield or searches for lands. Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, fetchlands.
Puts additional lands onto the battlefield or searches for lands. Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, fetchlands.
Accelerates mana production beyond the one-land-per-turn baseline. Umbrella tag — see ramp subtypes for land ramp, mana dorks, mana rocks, and rituals.
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Printings (4)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murders at Karlov Manor Promos#150p | rare | · | · | · |
| Murders at Karlov Manor Promos#150s | rare | · | · | · |
| Murders at Karlov Manor#308 | rare | · | · | · |
| Murders at Karlov Manor#150 | rare | · | · | · |
Rulings
The collect evidence ability of Analyze the Pollen allows you to find a nonbasic land card.
If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.