Sibylline Soothsayer
Mana Cost:
Type: Creature — Human Warlock
Oracle Text:
Temporal Foresight — When this creature enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or greater. Exile that card with three time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. Put the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Power/Toughness: 3/2
Rarity: uncommon
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Doctor Who
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Character Background
Sibylline Soothsayer reads like a three-mana cantrip with a built-in delayed tutor: a 3/2 body that helps both pressure the board and set up a future payoff makes it best in value- and midrange-oriented builds that want to guarantee a high-impact spell down the road, or in combo shells that can afford to wait three turns for a key piece. Thematically it’s a warlock who glimpses a looming threat and locks it away until fate allows its arrival—useful for putting bombs, planeswalkers or storm enablers on a timer. Deckbuilding tip: fill your top end with meaningful 3+ mana cards so the Soothsayer rarely misses, and pair it with red acceleration (Rite of Flame, Simian Spirit Guide) and cheap interaction so you survive while the time counters tick; it also lines up with any suspend-centric cards or effects that shorten or exploit time counters. Play it aggressively as a 3/2 attacker on turn three or as a tempo investment: you trade immediate raw tempo for reliable future value.
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