Curate is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Draw a card.
Complete guide
Curate is a versatile blue instant that provides essential deck filtering at a low cost. By allowing you to see your future draws before you actually take them, it ensures you find the answers you need exactly when you need them.
What It Does
Curate uses the Surveil mechanic to help you manage the top of your library. When you cast this spell, you look at the top two cards of your library and decide their fate: you can leave them on top in any order, bin them into your graveyard, or do a mix of both. Once that decision is made, you draw the top card of your library.
How It Resolves Step by Step
First, you look at the top two cards of your library. Second, you choose which ones stay on top and which go to the graveyard. If you put both back on top, you choose the order. Finally, you draw a card. Note that the card you draw will be either one of the cards you chose to keep on top or the third card down if you binned both.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is trying to draw the card before finishing the Surveil action. You must complete the Surveil 2 entirely—including moving cards to the graveyard—before the draw happens. Also, remember that Surveiling cards into the graveyard counts as putting cards into your graveyard from your library, which can trigger other abilities.
When to Play It
Because Curate is an instant, it is best played at the end of your opponent's turn. This allows you to keep your mana open for reactive spells. If you don't need to counter anything, you can use Curate to set up your next turn's draw.
Interaction examples
CounterspellDuring your opponent's end step, you cast Curate. You look at the top two cards and see a land and Counterspell. You choose to put the land into your graveyard and keep Counterspell on top. When Curate's final instruction resolves, you draw the Counterspell, leaving you ready to protect your board on the next turn.
An Offer You Can't RefuseYou cast Curate to find a win condition. Your opponent responds by casting An Offer You Can't Refuse to counter it. Curate is moved to the graveyard without any of its effects happening; you do not get to Surveil or draw. However, you do create two Treasure tokens as the counterspell resolves.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Curate
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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