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Uncover the Moon-Letters
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A slow but potentially powerful card-selection engine that turns each noncreature spell costing at least three mana into card advantage. It is best in a spell-heavy deck with second-draw payoffs; creature-heavy Limited decks should avoid spending turn four on it.
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Gameplay notes
Avoid casting this on turn four when under pressure, since it has no immediate board impact. Triggers are optional: one-mana spells lose a card overall, two-mana spells merely filter, and spells costing three or more generate net cards. Cost reductions and alternate costs change X because it counts mana actually spent.
Key synergies
Casting Inside Information with a large X spends X plus two mana, so Uncover can draw that many cards before discarding two, effectively adding substantial card selection and advantage to an already explosive turn.
Both Seek the Heart and The Arkenstone are noncreature spells, so Uncover can turn the two halves into separate large draw triggers; casting the five-mana artifact draws five cards before discarding two, followed by the Arkenstone's recurring end-step draw.
Ravenhill Flock receives a +1/+1 counter for every card drawn, so one expensive noncreature spell can place several counters on it through Uncover the Moon-Letters.
Bard doubles every draw beyond the normal draw-step card, greatly increasing the cards drawn by each Moon-Letters trigger while the trigger still discards only two.
Casting Sound the Trumpets triggers Uncover to draw three and discard two, and successfully countering a cheap spell adds the recruit loot and potentially a Human token, turning the counterspell into a major card-selection and board-development play.
Uncover repeatedly turns noncreature spells into extra draws that trigger the Councillors, while its discard fills your graveyard toward seven cards. The resulting mill also supplies graveyard resources for the same spell-heavy deck.
Casting Thranduil's Decree triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters for six cards before discarding two, adding a major card-selection payoff to Decree's counter-and-steal exchange.
The Eagles Are Coming! is a noncreature spell, and casting it kicked can trigger Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw six cards before discarding two, turning the expensive finisher into a major card-selection event.
Casting the eight-mana Through the Forest Gate triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw eight cards before discarding two, adding an enormous card-refill payoff to the lands and life.
Both cards reward a spell-dense deck: each noncreature spell pumps and pings with Gandalf while also turning into card selection through Uncover the Moon-Letters.
Casting this noncreature spell with three mana spent lets Uncover draw three and discard two before Confusticate and Bebother draws two and discards one, producing substantial card selection and net card advantage.
Casting this three-mana noncreature spell triggers Uncover for a substantial draw-three, discard-two effect, letting a necessary removal spell also improve your hand.
Uneasy Partings triggers the enchantment as a noncreature spell, turning the three-mana discounted cast into a draw-three, discard-two selection effect while also disrupting combat.
Although both encourage noncreature spells, Glamdring reduces the mana actually spent to cast them, which lowers the number of cards Uncover the Moon-Letters can draw.
Casting any noncreature spell after Moon-Letters draws at least one card, making it easy to reach two cards drawn that turn and enable Toymaker's +3/+0 and first strike combat bonus.
Casting the five-mana Burglar's Plot as a noncreature spell triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters for five cards, while Bilbo's repeatable looting helps manage the enchantment's discard costs.
Casting Eagle's Rescue as a four-mana noncreature spell triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw four cards before discarding two. Eagle's Rescue remains useful if discarded later because it can return itself from the graveyard.
Gathering of Darkness is a four-mana noncreature spell, so Uncover the Moon-Letters can turn casting it into drawing four cards and discarding two before Gathering resolves, adding substantial card selection to its recursion and amass value.
Both cards reward a high density of noncreature spells: casting Uncover itself amasses 1, and its repeated draw-and-discard effect helps chain additional noncreature spells into more Noisemaker triggers.
Casting this four-mana noncreature spell triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw four cards before discarding two, while the Saga's removal helps buy time for that card-selection engine.
Casting a noncreature spell can make Uncover draw one or more cards, readily reaching the second draw of the turn and triggering Bard while the subsequent discard helps filter the extra cards.
Casting Speak Secrets triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters to draw two and discard two, while Speak Secrets itself recovers an instant or sorcery and fills the graveyard, making both cards effective engines for the same spell-heavy graveyard strategy.
Casting Bilbo's Gambit triggers Uncover the Moon-Letters, letting you draw two cards before discarding two while you interact with the opponent's spell.