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Once Upon a Time 
Instant
Oracle Text
If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Format Legality
PioneerModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Once Upon a Time, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy | 5 | 3.2 | 161 | 3 |
| Duel Commander | 0 | 0 | 34 | 1 |
| Vintage | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Details
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 71
Non-foil
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Once Upon a Time
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Instants (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
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Creatures (24)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
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Creatures (26)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
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Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (30)
Sideboard
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Creatures (31)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Main Deck
Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (31)
Sideboard
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Creatures (31)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Sideboard
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Creatures (26)
Instants (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
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Creatures (30)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
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Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (13)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (3)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
- 1 Augur of Autumn
- 1 Courser of Kruphix
- 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
- 1 Tranquil Frillback
- 1 Icetill Explorer
- 1 Thought-Knot Seer
- 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
- 1 Sowing Mycospawn
- 1 Primeval Titan
- 1 World Breaker
- 1 Arboreal Grazer
- 1 Delighted Halfling
Sorceries (9)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (56)
- 1 Arid Archway
- 1 Blast Zone
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Castle Garenbrig
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dark Depths
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Dust Bowl
- 1 Echoing Deeps
- 1 Eldrazi Temple
- 1 Eye of Ugin
- 1 Fabled Passage
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Ghost Quarter
- 1 Glacial Chasm
- 1 Guildless Commons
- 1 Havenwood Battleground
- 1 Hickory Woodlot
- 1 Horizon of Progress
- 1 Lair of the Hydra
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Maze of Ith
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mouth of Ronom
- 1 Petrified Field
- 1 Pit of Offerings
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Radiant Fountain
- 1 Rishadan Port
- 1 Riveteers Overlook
- 1 Scavenger Grounds
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 12 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara
- 1 Tectonic Edge
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Thespian's Stage
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Cave
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 War Room
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya Hollow
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (34)
- 1 Accursed Marauder
- 1 Badgermole Cub
- 1 Barrowgoyf
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 1 Boggart Trawler
- 1 Broadside Bombardiers
- 1 Cankerbloom
- 1 Delighted Halfling
- 1 Detective's Phoenix
- 1 Elvish Mystic
- 1 Emperor of Bones
- 1 Fear of Missing Out
- 1 Frenzied Baloth
- 1 Fury
- 1 Fyndhorn Elves
- 1 Grief
- 1 Hexing Squelcher
- 1 Ignoble Hierarch
- 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
- 1 Llanowar Elves
- 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
- 1 Molt Tender
- 1 Opposition Agent
- 1 Orcish Bowmasters
- 1 Pyrogoyf
- 1 Springheart Nantuko
- 1 Vibrance
- 1 Wight of the Reliquary
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- 1 Chaos Defiler
- 1 Deathrite Shaman
- 1 Arbor Elf
- 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
- 1 Mawloc
Sorceries (5)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (38)
- 1 Abundant Countryside
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Bayou
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blooming Marsh
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Commercial District
- 1 Copperline Gorge
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Forest
- 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Multiversal Passage
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Shadowblood Ridge
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Starting Town
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Taiga
- 1 Underground Mortuary
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wastewood Verge
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (10)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (31)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Sorceries (8)
Artifacts (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (31)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (31)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
- 1 Augur of Autumn
- 1 Courser of Kruphix
- 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
- 1 Ramunap Excavator
- 1 Tranquil Frillback
- 1 Icetill Explorer
- 1 Thought-Knot Seer
- 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
- 1 Sowing Mycospawn
- 1 Primeval Titan
- 1 World Breaker
- 1 Arboreal Grazer
- 1 Delighted Halfling
Sorceries (9)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (6)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (56)
- 1 Arid Archway
- 1 Blast Zone
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1 Castle Garenbrig
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dark Depths
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 1 Dust Bowl
- 1 Echoing Deeps
- 1 Eldrazi Temple
- 1 Eye of Ugin
- 1 Fabled Passage
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Ghost Quarter
- 1 Glacial Chasm
- 1 Guildless Commons
- 1 Havenwood Battleground
- 1 Hickory Woodlot
- 1 Horizon of Progress
- 1 Lair of the Hydra
- 1 Lazotep Quarry
- 1 Maze of Ith
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mouth of Ronom
- 1 Petrified Field
- 1 Pit of Offerings
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Radiant Fountain
- 1 Rishadan Port
- 1 Riveteers Overlook
- 1 Scavenger Grounds
- 1 Shifting Woodland
- 12 Snow-Covered Forest
- 1 Talon Gates of Madara
- 1 Tectonic Edge
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Thespian's Stage
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Cave
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 War Room
- 1 Windswept Heath
- 1 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Yavimaya Hollow
- 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
