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Show and Tell
Oracle Text
Each player may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.
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Show and Tell is a quintessential high-variance blue sorcery that turns hidden hands into battlefield reality, making it a premier enabler for combo and big-mana strategies rather than fair tempo play. In practical terms, it best supports decks built to break symmetry: if you can drop an Omniscience, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, or even a powerful planeswalker-proxy-like permanent such as a game-ending enchantment or artifact, you gain a huge advantage while the opponent may only add a modest creature or land. Deckbuilding around it usually means packing expensive permanents, protective countermagic, and ways to capitalize immediately once they resolve. It also pairs naturally with cards that punish opposing cheats or restrict responses, and with hand sculpting tools that ensure you always have the right bomb ready. The spell’s eerie “present anything, reveal nothing” flavor fits its gameplay perfectly: a single decision can collapse the whole game.
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Character Background
Show and Tell is a quintessential high-variance blue sorcery that turns hidden hands into battlefield reality, making it a premier enabler for combo and big-mana strategies rather than fair tempo play. In practical terms, it best supports decks built to break symmetry: if you can drop an Omniscience, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, or even a powerful planeswalker-proxy-like permanent such as a game-ending enchantment or artifact, you gain a huge advantage while the opponent may only add a modest creature or land. Deckbuilding around it usually means packing expensive permanents, protective countermagic, and ways to capitalize immediately once they resolve. It also pairs naturally with cards that punish opposing cheats or restrict responses, and with hand sculpting tools that ensure you always have the right bomb ready. The spell’s eerie “present anything, reveal nothing” flavor fits its gameplay perfectly: a single decision can collapse the whole game.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 01:10:49 UTC