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Riddles in the Dark
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Three-mana instant, Fact-or-Fiction style: look at four, opponent splits the piles, one goes to hand and one to your graveyard. Solid card selection whose 'lost' pile is a resource for graveyard decks.
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Gameplay notes
Cards go to hand, not drawn — it does not trigger draw payoffs. The face-down pile forces the opponent to split blind, so stack it to make both piles good for you.
Key synergies
Riddles deliberately puts a pile of cards in your graveyard — with Bilbo, the 'lost' pile isn't lost at all: he casts those spells on later attacks.
Putting Plunder into the graveyard pile turns it into a live flashback spell that draws two cards, making that pile much less costly to surrender.
A creature that ends up in the graveyard pile becomes a direct reanimation target for the Saga's chapter II.
Riddles in the Dark can place Silvan Reveler into the graveyard, where a subsequent land entry lets the Reveler return itself to your hand.
If Tidings goes into the graveyard pile, it remains castable via flashback and produces the upgraded amass Goblins 3 effect.
Riddles can add several cards to your graveyard at once, helping Master's Councillors receive its threshold-based +2/+0 bonus.
Riddles can place Moment of Glory directly into the graveyard, enabling its flashback mode and the additional team-wide +1/+1 counters.
The cards sent to the graveyard by Riddles help reach threshold, upgrading Most Decrepit Old Bird into a larger evasive threat.
Riddles stocks the graveyard with creatures for Along the Crooked Way to return; that creature leaving the graveyard also triggers its amass ability.
Riddles can put Eagle's Rescue into the graveyard, from which it can return directly to the battlefield attached to a power-1 creature.
If Gollum is placed in the graveyard pile, his sacrifice ability can return him to hand, recovering a card that would otherwise be lost.