Continuing 'mechanics March,' today I look at surveil.
From the official rules,
701.42. Surveil- 701.42a To “surveil N” means to look at the top N cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.
Surveil is handy for two reasons:
1) getting through your deck faster to obtain desired cards (a deck sculpting mechanism)
2) getting cards into your graveyard faster to enable strategies that profit from that (delve pairs well)
The concept of surveil first appeared in Odyssey (2001), but it got its ability word starting in the Guilds of Ravnica (2018). It has appeared on 155 cards so far; the majority are blue and/or black.
Surveil is a powerful and popular mechanic, now featured to some degree in at least a few cards in sets each year.
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