One of my favorite blue cards is Future Sight. For 5cc, you get an enchantment that does all kinds of great and wonderful things when it is in play. Coupled with cards that allow you to shuffle your library or otherwise reorder the top card, Future Sight can end up being the equivalent of drawing a fistful of cards every turn. And that's without doing anything really crazy. Get these three cards out at the same time and draw your library!
There's nothing quite like Future Sight in black, at least not that I found. When black draws cards, it doesn't mess around. It draws them. Sometimes by the fistful. Sometimes just a few at a time. But almost always with a payment of life.
With just these cards, you can cram raw drawing power into your mono-black deck. But if you are looking for a card like Future Sight, check this out:
Ignore for a moment that Null Profusion is the timeshifted version of Recycle (a green card). What we have here is an enchantment for 6cc vs. the 5cc of Future Sight with massive potential. As long as you have some way to support this card so that you don't get stuck without any cards in hand, get ready to draw like crazy.
I like Null Profusion in black. There's some danger to it. If your hand ends up empty, you need a back-up plan or you're stuck. Also, it locks you in at two cards. But remember, the maximum hand size part only matters at the end of your turn, in the cleanup step. You can hold onto more cards than that during your turn or on the other guy(s) turns. Oh, and if your spell is countered, you get to draw anyway. You even get to draw off dropping a land.
It's not quite Future Sight, but hey this is blue's evil brother. Things aren't going to be easy. Don't bow to fate.
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