Glimpse the Future
Sorcery
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic 2014
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #25554
Glimpse the Future gives you three cards of selection for three mana at instant speed — you see four, keep three, and bury the worst option. That rate is good enough for any blue deck that cares about hitting specific pieces, and the instant speed is what separates it from sorcery-speed alternatives.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Glimpse the Future slots cleanly into any blue deck that needs to find answers or hit combo pieces — the instant speed matters because you can hold up interaction and dig at end of turn if you don't need to use it. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes with a deeper card pool of cantrips and doesn't see serious play, but it's a reasonable budget role-player in lower-powered builds. Legacy and Vintage have access to strictly more efficient options at one and two mana, so Glimpse the Future doesn't register there. Commander is where it earns its keep.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Glimpse the Future is pure bulk — you can pick up a playset for less than a dollar. That price is stable; there's no scarcity angle here, just a widely printed common that's easy to slot in without thinking twice about the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.