I don’t think The Deck of Many Things is a Constructed card it’s really only good with an already-empty hand, and getting to seven mana is a bit of a tall order. It’s only coming up 5% of the time, and with an already empty hand, but that’s still possible. So the “best-case” scenario is to reanimate something, sacrifice it immediately, and give an unlucky player an unfortunate death experience. Rolling a 20 with an empty hand is where things get weird: reanimate a creature, but that creature’s death takes its owner with it. Random Regrowth is maybe less ideal…unless you know which card is coming back through graveyard manipulation, which is a thing, but a card coming back is still a card. Seven mana to draw two cards (the most-likely ability) is not great, but keep in mind that this is both colorless and repeatable, off-setting that element. But the main draw is for its two “usual” abilities: random recursion, and card draw.

The Deck does carry a slight wrinkle: it’s more effective with an emptier hand, and it’s possible to dump your hand. The Deck of Many Things offers just that, and it’s a card you can theoretically use to win the game on the spot! More on that later, though. The mechanism of a lot of the dice cards is a good effect as a baseline, with better effects as you scale up. Dice rolls make their debut in black-bordered Magic, and The Deck of Many Things is an interesting card to start with in that regard.

Mtg forgotten realms decks