River Song's Diary
Mana Cost:
Type: Artifact
Oracle Text:
Imprint — Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell from their hand, exile it instead of putting it into a graveyard as it resolves.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more cards exiled with this artifact, choose one of them at random. You may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (4) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
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Character Background
River Song’s Diary feels like the kind of artifact River would stash in a timeline pocket: it doesn’t “burn” spells into the past, it preserves them for the next chapter. Imprint means every instant or sorcery you cast from hand gets exiled rather than sent to the graveyard, turning your early game interaction into a long-term resource. Then, once upkeep arrives with four or more cards exiled this way, you randomize one to recast for free—effectively converting your hand-based tempo plays into repeatable value at upkeep. In practice, this supports a control-to-value game plan, where you stockpile removal, counters, and key utility spells, then “replay” one per turn to stabilize and out-grind opponents. To maximize odds, build with cheap instants/sorceries and redundancy—cards that are excellent even when drawn late—plus effects that help you reach four imprinted spells quickly without sacrificing inevitability.
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