Oblivious Bookworm

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Character Background

Oblivious Bookworm reads like a courtly scholar who “forgets” its own lesson at the worst moment, and that’s exactly what makes it tick: at your end step you get a conditional draw, but the price is discarding unless you’ve either set up a face-down permanent under your control this turn or flipped one face up. In practice, this card slots into a grindy control or value shell that wants repeated end-step selection—draw a little more, then keep your hand stocked by discarding carefully rather than randomly. Build with a strong density of face-down mechanics (or cards that reliably turn them face up), so you can consistently avoid the discard penalty and convert Bookworm into steady card flow. The best synergy is pairing it with your face-down enablers and low-cost recursion or “payoff” permanents, turning the draw into long-term inevitability rather than a temporary spike.

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