Fathom Trawl Blue Card in Magic the Gathering

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"MIKE LOPEZ: Hi. I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village. And today, we'll be discussing the blue cards from the blue block of Magic: The Gathering. Here, we have Fathom Trawl. Fathom Trawl is out of the Lorwyn set, as we see from this little icon. It is a rare. The reason, it's a rare because it's very, very powerful. Now, we have three and two blue to play, its converted mana cost of five, which means you would most likely play this on your fifth turn or after. Now, the unique thing that this sorcery does is it allows you to reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal three non-land cards. That means if there are lands sitting on top of your library, you can get to cycle through them until you run into three non-land cards. Now, you going to reveal these cards, which means you have to show them to every opponent and player at the table, and the cards that you reveal this way go directly into your hands. So you got to draw three cards that might not have been at the top of your library or might have been beneath a couple of land and you put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Now, the reason for the bottom on the library in any order is very important because some games, and if you took a lot of cards off the top, but in some games, especially in multiple-player games, three or more, that will go until your deck is done. It will go to the bottom of your deck. So having them in the order you want, late game, is very, very important."