Library of Leng

Name
Library of Leng

Mana Cost

Type
Artifact

Set
Unlimited Edition

Rarity
Uncommon

Text

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.


Number
#258

Other Prints
30th Anniversary Edition
Revised Edition
Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
Fourth Edition
Fifth Edition
Collectors' Edition
Intl. Collectors' Edition
Foreign Black Border
Limited Edition Alpha
Limited Edition Beta
Masters Edition IV
Special Guests
Summer Magic / Edgar

Legal Formats
Commander | Duel | Legacy | Oathbreaker | Old School | Pauper | Pauper Commander | Premodern | Vintage

Availability
Paper

Rulings

(04/10/2004)
You can't use the Library of Leng ability to place a discarded card on top of your library when you discard a card as a cost, because costs aren't effects.


(04/10/2004)
The discard triggers anything else that triggers on discards.


(04/10/2004)
You can look at a randomly discarded card before deciding where it goes.


(04/10/2004)
Since the card goes directly to the library, the card is not revealed unless the spell or ability requiring the discard specifically says it is.


(04/10/2004)
This effect has no effect on the cards being put into the graveyard from a library, because they are not "discarded".


(04/10/2004)
The ability replaces the normal discard action with a discard action that puts the card on the library instead of the graveyard.


(01/10/2009)
If multiple effects modify your hand size, apply them in timestamp order. For example, if you put Null Profusion (an enchantment that says your maximum hand size is two) onto the battlefield and then put Library of Leng onto the battlefield, you'll have no maximum hand size. However, if those permanents entered in the opposite order, your maximum hand size would be two.


(04/10/2004)
If more than one card is discarded due to a single effect, the Library allows you to decide whether or not to use it on each of the cards. You get to decide the order the cards are placed on the library if more than one goes there.


(04/10/2004)
The ability applies any time a spell or ability has you discard as part of its effect. It does not matter if you or your opponent control the spell or ability. The discard is forced because it is an effect.


Artist
Daniel Gelon

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