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In this web page, I hope to present to you strategies, combos, and obscure uses for a new Magic: The Gathering card every single day.

The Card of the Day is...

Spellbook

Exodus Uncommon
0 Artifact

"Skip your discard phase."

Even though there are those times I'm forced to discard at the end of my turn and I really wish I didn't have to (against land destruction for example), I wouldn't include Spellbook in your deck just to avoid that. There are better things to try with this cheaper/limited version of Library of Leng:

Ivory Tower
After not playing anything for just a few turns (and not discarding past 7 cards thanks to Spellbook), you can be quickly amassing over 5 life a turn thanks to a simple little Ivory Tower. Possibly add cards like Howling Mine to swell your hand even quicker.
Braingeyser/Prosperity...
There are many flavors and sizes of spells that can allow you to draw a ton of cards really quickly. It's a shame you must usually discard down to only 7 at the end of your turn--unless you got a Spellbook in play. Having a huge hand size has untold benefits in Magic. Think...Cadaverous Bloom. With the help of Spellbook, you won't have to try to pull of the Prosperity and Drain Life in the same turn...if you're familiar with that concept.
Maro/Empyrial Armor
Maro has power and toughness equal to the amount of cards in your hand. Empyrial Armor bestows Maro's exact added ability to whatever creature you have don the armor. Both of these cards benefit greatly from an abnormally large hand size.
Scroll Rack
I love Scroll Rack. This artifact allows you to set aside as many cards in your hand as you wish, then draw that many cards from the top of your library. You the place the freshly set aside cards back on top of your library in any order you wish. When you're dealing with huge hands (and that's the main use of Spellbook), Scroll Rack is an invaluable tool for rummaging through many cards to fliter out the ones you need when you need them. It's almost like a really beefy Sylvan Library with a small activation cost.

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BLACK

Abyssal Specter
Aku Djinn
Artifact Possession
Bad Moon
Banshee
Barrow Ghoul
NEW!Blanket of Night
Bottomless Pit
Buried Alive
Crypt Rats
Dance of the Dead
Demonic Tutor
Derelor
Dregs of Sorrow
Drudge Skeletons
NEW!Dungeon Shade
Funeral March
Gangrenous Zombies
NEW!Gravedigger
Greater Werewolf
Infernal Harvest
NEW!Kezzerdrix
Krovikan Vampire
Lab Rats
Mole Worms
Moor Fiend
Nameless Race
Nekrataal
Phyrexian Boon
NEW!Pit Spawn
Plague Rats
Rabid Rats
Ravenous Vampire
Reanimate
Sadistic Glee
Seizures
Sengir Bats
Spirit Shackle
Stench of Evil
Stromgald Spy
Terror
NEW!Touch of Death
Tourach's Chant
Urborg Justice
Vampirism
Yawgmoth Demon
Zombie Master

BLUE
Abjure
NEW!Bay Falcon
Benthic Explorers
Betrayal
Breezekeeper
Clairvoyance
Coral Fighters
Deep Spawn
Drowned
Enervate
NEW!Erosion
Fylamarid
Homarid
Homarid Spawning Bed
Horned Turtle
Intruder Alarm
Jinx
Jump
Juxtapose
Krovikan Sorcerer
Legacy's Allure
Leviathan
Mind Games
Musician
Portent
Psychic Allergy
NEW!Reconstruction
Shrieking Drake
Sindbad
Snowfall
Stasis
Teferi's Curse
Teferi's Veil
Thalakos Seer
Tidal Flats
Timid Drake
Thalakos Seer
Undo
Viscerid Drone
Wall of Wonder
Winter's Chill
Word of Undoing

GREEN
Aboroth
Aisling Leprechaun
Carnassid
Cat Warriors
Crash of Rhinos
Daughter of Autumn
Dire Wolves
Elephant Grass
Elvish Hunter
Endangered Armodon
Femeref Archers
Fog
NEW!Foxfire
Fugitive Druid
Fungal Bloom
Gargantuan Gorilla
Ghazban Ogre
NEW!Harvest Wurm
Johtull Wurm
Joven's Ferrets
Lure of Prey
King Cheetah
Kyscu Drake
Lure
Ley Druid
Llanowar Behemoth
Mtenda Lion
Needle Storm
NEW!Nettletooth Djinn
Night Soil
Plated Rootwalla
Sandstorm
Scarwood Bandits
Spider Climb
NEW!Stampeding Wildebeests
NEW!Summer Bloom
Trumpeting Armodon
Thelonite Monk
Veteran Explorer
NEW!Volrath's Garden
Whip Vine
Whriling Dervish
Winter's Grasp
Woolly Spider
Wood Elemental
Wormwood Treefolk

RED
Active Volcano
Agent of Stromgald
Aggression
Ali Baba
Balduvian Hydra
NEW!Barbed Sliver
Barreling Attack
Beasts of Bogardan
Betrothed of Fire
Blood Moon
Boil
Bone Shaman
Canyon Wildcat
Cave People
Chandler
Chaos Harlequin
Chaoslace
Chaoslord
Cinder Giant
Detonate
Disharmony
Dwarven Nomad
Dwarven Sea Clan
Enslaved Scout
Fire Whip
NEW!Flowstone Blade
Furnace Spirit
Glyph of Destruction
Goblin Kites
Goblin Snowman
Goblin Tinkerer
Heat Wave
Hurloon Shaman
Hyperion Blacksmith
Inferno
Keeper of Kookus
Kobold Overlord
Lava Hounds
Magnetic Mountain
Mana Clash
No Quarter
Omen of Fire
Orcish Settlers
Orgg
Primordial Ooze
Rathi Dragon
Sandstone Warrior
Stone Giant
Tahngarth's Rage
Tooth and Claw
NEW!Tor Giant
Varchild's War-Riders
Windseeker Centaur
Zirilan of the Claw

WHITE
Angry Mob
Animate Wall
Armor of Faith
Beast Walkers
Benalish Missionary
Camel
Circle of Protection: Black
Circle of Protection: Green
Disempower
Farmstead
Farrel's Zealot
Festival
Foriysian Brigade
Gerrard's Wisdom
Hallowed Ground
Heroism
Hipparion
NEW!Humility
Icatian Moneychanger
NEW!Infantry Veteran
Kjeldoran Pride
Orim, Samite Healer
Peace Talks
Purelace
Reinforcements
NEW!Rolling Stones
Royal Decree
Smite
Southern Paladin
Spectral Guardian
Spirit Link
Sunweb
Tithe
Trade Caravan
Truce
Warrior en-Kor
White Scarab
Winds of Rath
Worthy Cause
Youthful Knight

ARTIFACT
Acidic Dagger
Arcum's Sleigh
Brass Man
Brass-Talon Chimera
Booby Trap
NEW!Chimeric Sphere
Coal Golem
Colossus of Sardia
Delif's Cube
Dragon Mask
Floodwater Dam
Horn of Greed
NEW!Igneous Golem
NEW!Nacre Talisman
North Star
Pyhrexian Dreadnought
Phyrexian Hulk
Rod of Ruin
Soldevi Steam Beast
Sword of the Chosen
Whirling Catapult
NEW!Winter Orb
Xanthic Statue

GOLD
Acidic Sliver
Adun Oakenshield
Johan
Kei Takahashi
Misfortune
Prismatic Boon
Spatial Binding
Warping Wurm
Wings of Aesthir
NEW!Wood Sage

LAND
Ancient Tomb
Caldera Lake
Halls of Mist
Karakas
Rainbow Vale
Sorrow's Path
NEW!Underground River
Unholy Citadel

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March 4, 1997 Juxtapose
March 5, 1997 Chaoslord
March 6, 1997 Circle of Protection: Black
August 14, 1997 Fire Whip
August 15, 1997 Sindbad
August 16, 1997 Barrow Ghoul
August 17, 1997 Goblin Kites
August 18, 1997 Reinforcements
August 19, 1997 Tithe
August 20, 1997 Blanket of Night
August 21, 1997 Aisling Leprechaun
August 22, 1997 Sorrow's Path
August 23, 1997 Glyph of Destruction
August 24, 1997 Halls of Mist
August 25, 1997 Lure
August 26, 1997 Nekrataal
August 27, 1997 Magnetic Mountain
August 28, 1997 Psychic Allergy
August 29, 1997 Ley Druid
August 30, 1997 Deep Spawn
August 31, 1997 Circle of Protection: Green
September 1, 1997 Keeper of Kookus
September 2, 1997 King Cheetah
September 3, 1997 Animate Wall
September 4, 1997 Peace Talks
September 5, 1997 Scarwood Bandits
September 6, 1997 Land Equilibrium
September 7, 1997 Living Plane
September 8, 1997 Gerrard's Wisdom
September 9, 1997 Fungal Bloom
September 10, 1997 Spirit Link
September 11, 1997 Karakas
September 12, 1997 Vanishing
September 13, 1997 Cyclone
September 14, 1997 Dragon Mask
September 15, 1997 Skull of Orm
September 16, 1997 Vesuvan Doppelganger
September 17, 1997 Pyhrexian Dreadnought
September 18, 1997 Songs of the Damned
September 19, 1997 Varchild's War-Riders
September 20, 1997 Drudge Skeletons
September 21, 1997 Dance of the Dead
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September 29, 1997 Lhurgoyf
September 30, 1997 Seizures
October 1, 1997 Boiling Blood
October 2, 1997 Orcish Settlers
October 3, 1997 Song of Blood
October 4, 1997 Blood Moon
October 5, 1997 Zombie Master
October 6, 1997 A review of Tempest by Rich
October 7, 1997 Living Death
October 8, 1997 Sadistic Glee
October 9, 1997 Shocker
October 10, 1997 Night Soil
October 11, 1997 Winds of Rath
October 12, 1997 Stasis
October 13, 1997 Buried Alive
October 14, 1997 Fog
October 15, 1997 Elvish Hunter
October 16, 1997 Orim, Samite Healer
October 17, 1997 An-Zerrin Ruins
October 18, 1997 Spider Climb
October 19, 1997 Mana Clash
October 20, 1997 Disharmony
October 21, 1997 Artifact Possession
October 22, 1997 Ghazban Ogre
October 23, 1997 Teferi's Curse
October 24, 1997 Waiting in the Weeds
October 25, 1997 Stench of Evil
October 26, 1997 Anarchy
October 27, 1997 Crypt Rats
October 28, 1997 Frankenstein's Monster
October 29, 1997 Sengir Bats
October 30, 1997 Greater Werewolf
October 31, 1997 Zirilan of the Claw
November 1, 1997 Teferi's Veil
November 2, 1997 Flash
November 3, 1997 Fungusaur
November 4, 1997 Cinder Giant
November 5, 1997 Yawgmoth Demon
November 6, 1997 Disempower
November 7, 1997 Hyperion Blacksmith
November 8, 1997 Homarid Spawning Bed
November 9, 1997 Harvest Wurm
November 10, 1997 Dwarven Nomad
November 11, 1997 Sandstorm
November 12, 1997 Goblin Tinkerer
November 13, 1997 Ravenous Vampire
November 14, 1997 Spatial Binding
November 15, 1997 Illicit Auction
November 16, 1997 Booby Trap
November 17, 1997 Aboroth
November 18, 1997 Flailing Drake
November 19, 1997 Aggression
November 20, 1997 Southern Paladin
November 21, 1997 Betrayal
November 22, 1997 Royal Decree
November 23, 1997 Mtenda Lion
November 24, 1997 Llanowar Behemoth
November 25, 1997 Infinite Authority
November 26, 1997 Clairvoyance
November 27, 1997 Worthy Cause
November 28, 1997 Terror
November 29, 1997 Island Fish Jasconius
November 30, 1997 Knowledge Vault
December 1, 1997 Coral Fighters
December 2, 1997 Cold Snap
December 3, 1997 Stone Giant
December 4, 1997 Osai Vultures
December 5, 1997 Krovikan Horror
December 6, 1997 Delif's Cube
December 7, 1997 Sea Troll
December 8, 1997 Agent of Stromgald
December 9, 1997 Wood Sage
December 10, 1997 Rootwater Diver
December 11, 1997 Orgg
December 12, 1997 Undo
December 13, 1997 Hydroblast
December 14, 1997 Kelsinko Ranger
December 15, 1997 Xanthic Statue
December 16, 1997 Angry Mob
December 17, 1997 Derelor
December 18, 1997 Acidic Dagger
December 19, 1997 Heroism
December 20, 1997 Festival
December 21, 1997 Thelonite Monk
December 22, 1997 Chandler
December 23, 1997 Snowfall
December 24, 1997 Arcum's Sleigh
December 25, 1997 Goblin Snowman
December 26, 1997 Mole Worms
December 27, 1997 Orcish Farmers
December 28, 1997 Tahngarth's Rage
December 29, 1997 Johan
December 30, 1997 Lava Hounds
December 31, 1997 Cold Storage
January 1, 1998 Dregs of Sorrow
January 2, 1998 Death Speakers
January 3, 1998 Krovikan Vampire
January 4, 1998 Aspect of Wolf
January 5, 1998 Icatian Moneychanger
January 6, 1998 Heat Wave
January 7, 1998 Giant Shark
January 8, 1998 Jinx
January 9, 1998 Phyrexian Boon
January 10, 1998 Erati's Familiar
January 11, 1998 An-Havva Inn
January 12, 1998 Sunweb
January 13, 1998 Chaoslace
January 14, 1998 Coal Golem
January 15, 1998 Warping Wurm
January 16, 1998 Rod of Ruin
January 17, 1998 Joven's Ferrets
January 18, 1998 Betrothed of Fire
January 19, 1998 Bone Shaman
January 20, 1998 Krovikan Sorcerer
January 21, 1998 Whirling Catapult
January 22, 1998 Cat Warriors
January 23, 1998 Stromgald Spy
January 24, 1998 Hurloon Shaman
January 25, 1998 Brass-Talon Chimera
January 26, 1998 Armor of Faith
January 27, 1998 Needle Storm
January 28, 1998 Word of Undoing
January 29, 1998 Fugitive Druid
January 30, 1998 No Quarter
January 31, 1998 Inferno

February 1, 1998 Portent
February 2, 1998 Wall of Wonder
February 3, 1998 Viscerid Drone
February 4, 1198 Timid Drake
February 5, 1998 Farrel's Zealot
February 6, 1998 Veteran Explorer
February 7, 1998 Fylamarid
February 8, 1998 Omen of Fire
February 9, 1998 North Star
February 10, 1998 Infernal Harvest
February 11, 1998 Beasts of Bogardan
February 12, 1998 Kjeldoran Pride
February 13, 1998 Leviathan
February 14, 1998 Bad Moon
February 15, 1998 Funeral March
February 16, 1998 Dire Wolves
February 17, 1998 Nameless Race
February 18, 1998 Gangrenous Zombies
February 19, 1998 Dwarven Sea Clan
February 20, 1998 Hallowed Ground
February 21, 1998 Wood Elemental
February 22, 1998 Jump
February 23, 1998 Trumpeting Armodon
February 24, 1998 Unholy Citadel
February 25, 1998 Colossus of Sardia
February 26, 1998 Thalakos Seer
February 27, 1998 Detonate
February 28, 1998 Chaos Harlequin

March 1, 1998 Reanimate
March 2, 1998 Plague Rats
March 3, 1998 Barreling Attack
March 4, 1998 Benthic Explorers
March 5, 1998 Cave People
March 6, 1998 Rathi Dragon
March 7, 1998 Whip Vine
March 8, 1998 Gargantuan Gorilla
March 9, 1998 Acidic Sliver
March 10, 1998 Rolling Stones
March 11, 1998 Mind Games
March 12, 1998 Intruder Alarm
March 13, 1998 Endangered Armodon
March 14, 1998 Legacy's Allure
March 15, 1998 Winter's Chill
March 16, 1998 Demonic Tutor
March 17, 1998 Wings of Aesthir
March 18, 1998 Banshee
March 19, 1998 Warrior en-Kor
March 20, 1998 Sword of the Chosen
March 21, 1998 Horn of Greed
March 22, 1998 Camouflage
March 23, 1998 Foriysian Brigade
March 24, 1998 Prismatic Boon
March 25, 1998 Spectral Guardian
March 26, 1998 Aku Djinn
March 27, 1998 Lab Rats
March 28, 1998 Urborg Justice
March 29, 1998 Abjure
March 30, 1998 Canyon Wildcat
March 31, 1998 Beast Walkers

April 1, 1998 Kobold Overlord
April 2, 1998 Rainbow Vale
April 3, 1998 Primordial Ooze
April 4, 1998 Kei Takahashi
April 5, 1998 Musician
April 6, 1998 White Scarab
April 7, 1998 Johtull Wurm
April 8, 1998 Daughter of Autumn
April 9, 1998 Drowned
April 10, 1998 Phyrexian Hulk
April 11, 1998 Shrieking Drake
April 12, 1998 Wormwood Treefolk
April 13, 1998 Boil
April 14, 1998 Floodwater Dam
April 15, 1998 Active Volcano
April 16, 1998 Carnassid
April 17, 1998 Farmstead
April 18, 1998 Winter's Grasp
April 19, 1998 Whriling Dervish
April 20, 1998 Homarid
April 21, 1998 Tooth and Claw
April 22, 1998 Spirit Shackle
April 23, 1998 Rabid Rats
April 24, 1998 Kyscu Drake
April 25, 1998 Camel
April 26, 1998 Vampirism
April 27, 1998 Balduvian Hydra
April 28, 1998 Truce
April 29, 1998 Misfortune
April 30 1998 Woolly Spider

May 1, 1998 Sandstone Warrior
May 2, 1998 Crash of Rhinos
May 3, 1998 Breezekeeper
May 4, 1998 Trade Caravan>
May 5, 1998 Abyssal Specter
May 6, 1998 Ali Baba
May 7, 1998 Brass Man
May 8, 1998 Youthful Knight
May 9, 1998 Purelace
May 10, 1998 Bottomless Pit
May 11, 1998 Furnace Spirit
May 12, 1998 Tidal Flats
May 13, 1998 Enslaved Scout
May 14, 1998 Smite
May 15, 1998 Ancient Tomb
May 16, 1998 Lure of Prey
May 17, 1998 Tourach's Chant
May 18, 1998 Caldera Lake
May 19, 1998 Moor Fiend
May 20, 1998 Femeref Archers
May 21, 1998 Windseeker Centaur
May 22, 1998 Enervate
May 23, 1998 Stampeding Wildebeests
May 24, 1998 Benalish Missionary
May 25, 1998 Elephant Grass
May 26, 1998 Soldevi Steam Beast
May 27, 1998 Horned Turtle
May 28, 1998 Adun Oakenshield
May 29, 1998 Hipparion
May 30, 1998 Plated Rootwalla
May 31, 1998 Humility

June 1, 1998 Foxfire
June 2, 1998 Bay Falcon
June 3, 1998 Tor Giant
June 4, 1998 Underground River
June 5, 1998 Barbed Sliver
June 6, 1998 Nettletooth Djinn
June 7, 1998 Summer Bloom
June 8, 1998 Flowstone Blade
June 9, 1998 Chimeric Sphere
June 10, 1998 Volrath's Garden
June 11, 1998 Dungeon Shade
June 12, 1998 Winter Orb
June 13, 1998 Igneous Golem
June 14, 1998 Infantry Veteran
June 15, 1998 Gravedigger
June 16, 1998 Kezzerdrix
June 17, 1998 Nacre Talisman
June 18, 1998 Erosion
June 19, 1998 Touch of Death
June 20, 1998 Reconstruction
June 21, 1998 Pit Spawn
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