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Read the Bones
Sorcery
common
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
CardmarketSemantic Tags
Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.
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Printings (17)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop#2566 | rare | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Drop#7069 | rare | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Drop#7066 | rare | · | · | · |
| Pioneer Masters#104 | common | · | · | · |
| Foundations Jumpstart#479 | common | · | · | · |
| Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander#154 | common | · | · | · |
| Commander Masters#182 | common | · | · | · |
| March of the Machine Commander#267 | common | · | · | · |
| Starter Commander Decks#101 | common | · | · | · |
| Dominaria United Commander#117 | common | · | · | · |
| Time Spiral Remastered#328 | special | · | · | · |
| The List#DDP-56 | common | · | · | · |
| Commander 2017#122 | common | · | · | · |
| Duel Decks: Zendikar vs. Eldrazi#56 | common | · | · | · |
| Magic Origins#114 | common | · | · | · |
| Commander 2014#158 | common | · | · | · |
| Theros#101 | common | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
Related Rules
A Shard token is a colorless Shard enchantment token with “{2}, Sacrifice this token: Scry 1, then draw a card.”
A Sorcerer Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Sorcerer with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ‘Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.’”
Scry
To “scry N” means to look at the top N cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library in any order and the rest on top of your library in any order.
If a player is instructed to scry 0, no scry event occurs. Abilities that trigger whenever a player scries won’t trigger.
If multiple players scry at once, each of those players looks at the top cards of their library at the same time. Those players decide in APNAP order (see rule 101.4) where to put those cards, then those cards move at the same time.
Rulings
When you scry, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards on the bottom of your library, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them on the bottom.
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, that means you'll scry last. For others, that means you'll scry and then perform other actions.
Scry appears on some spells and abilities with one or more targets. If all of the spell or ability's targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't scry.
You choose how to order cards returned to your library after scrying no matter where you put them.
The loss of life is part of the spell's effect. It's not an additional cost. If Read the Bones doesn't resolve, you won't lose life.