Burning Curiosity
Mana Cost:
Type: Sorcery
Oracle Text:
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 1. (You may put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
Exile the top two cards of your library. If this spell's additional cost was paid, exile the top three cards instead. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: common
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price ( USD): $0.10
USD: $0.10 · EUR: €0.11
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Character Background
Burning Curiosity reads like a red value engine: for {2}{R} you trade a tiny, intentional piece of your board (blight 1 = put a -1/-1 on a creature you control) for deeper digging and an extended window to cast what you find, so its primary game plan is card advantage/value and hand-smoothing rather than pure tempo or control. As a midrange or spell-centric aggro deck inclusion it helps sculpt draws and stash a land or burn spell to be used across this turn and your next, enabling line-of-play setups or combo assembly without hemorrhaging tempo. Deckbuilding tip: include expendable bodies or token generators so the blight cost is cheap—1/1 tokens or creatures you plan to sac to an altar make paying blight trivial—and pair it with sacrifice outlets or cards that benefit from creatures dying for extra upside. Also consider mono-red or red-midrange shells that run cheap interaction and care about sequencing; Burning Curiosity is best when the small board tax becomes fuel for bigger plays.
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