Spellbook Artifact Card in Magic the Gathering

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village and today we will be discussing artifacts from Magic the Gathering. Now I am going to go over Spell Book. Spell Book is one of the only artifacts that have been around since Magic the Gathering started, it is a very powerful artifact because it basically changes the entire rule of the game. Now here how, here's how it changes. From the artifact which is an uncommon out of your basic set, you'll always find Spell Book in the basic set, and the reason it's so powerful is because if you look over here in the converted mana cost, what you have here is a zero in the colorless circle. Well what this means is that it costs you nothing to play Spell Book. That's right, you have no mana to tap and it does not require any mana to play Spell Book at all. Once again, this is a free spell, this is the only free spell that you will ever see in Magic, there are no other free spells and the closest you will get is one colorless mana for any other artifact, but this is a free spell and what this does is, is it changes the rules of the game for you because you have no maximum hand size, which means that if you have more than seven cards in your hand at the end of your turn, you do not have to discard. This is a very powerful card if you are running a draw and mill deck."