Advice from the Fae
Sorcery
(
can be paid with any two mana or with 
. This card's mana value is 6.)
Look at the top five cards of your library. If you control more creatures than each other player, put two of those cards into your hand. Otherwise, put one of them into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #22749
Advice from the Fae lets you look at the top five cards of your library and keep two of them — more if you have the most creatures — for five mana at instant speed. That rate is unexciting unless you're reliably triggering the tribal bonus, at which point it becomes a reasonable mid-game refuel in blue-black decks built around board presence.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Advice from the Fae sits in the lower tier of draw spells — five mana for two cards is baseline acceptable, and the three-card ceiling only matters when you control more creatures than every opponent, which is harder to guarantee in a four-player game. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient card selection, so Advice from the Fae won't see play there. Modern offers enough competition at this mana cost that it rarely makes cuts outside of dedicated tribal synergy builds. The card's best home is a Commander deck that consistently goes wide with creatures — Faerie tribal, token strategies, or Dimir aristocrats — where the creature-count clause fires often enough to justify the slot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Advice from the Fae is bulk in every sense — low demand, easy to find in common bins. That price is stable because the card fills a narrow role; don't expect movement either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.