Widespread Thieving 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.
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Official card text
Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, create a Treasure token. Then you may pay. If you do, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
How it works : Widespread Thieving
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You may use the Treasure token created by the first part of Widespread Thieving's last ability to pay part of the
cost in the second part of that ability.Card named in this ruling
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
“Hideaway N” means “When this permanent enters the battlefield, look at the top N cards of your library. Exile one of them face down and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. The exiled card gains ‘The player who controls the permanent that exiled this card may look at this card in the exile zone.'”
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Any player who has controlled a permanent with a hideaway ability since a card was exiled with it may look at that card.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Previously, permanents with hideaway entered the battlefield tapped. This ability has been removed from the definition of hideaway. Older cards have received errata to have an additional paragraph that reads “[This permanent] enters the battlefield tapped,” and they now have hideaway 4.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Hideaway now causes you to put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in a random order instead of any order.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Heaven Sent + Widespread Thieving + Barbara Wright + Estrid's Invocation
Near-infinite damageNear-infinite storm count
- 1Cast Heaven Sent by paying .
- 2Widespread Thieving and Estrid's Invocation trigger, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 3Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 4Resolve Heaven Sent, choosing to have it enter the battlefield with three chapter counters on it due to its read ahead ability.
- 5Heaven Sent's third chapter ability triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent, and causing you to draw seven cards if an opponent has 0 or less life, or otherwise exile Heaven Sent with the ability to play it this turn.
- 6If Heaven Sent was exiled this way, repeat until Heaven Sent is not exiled.
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#2
Heaven Sent + Widespread Thieving + Barbara Wright + Copy Enchantment
Near-infinite damageNear-infinite storm count
- 1Cast Heaven Sent by paying .
- 2Widespread Thieving and Copy Enchantment trigger, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 3Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 4Resolve Heaven Sent, choosing to have it enter the battlefield with three chapter counters on it due to its read ahead ability.
- 5Heaven Sent's third chapter ability triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent, and causing you to draw seven cards if an opponent has 0 or less life, or otherwise exile Heaven Sent with the ability to play it this turn.
- 6If Heaven Sent was exiled this way, repeat until Heaven Sent is not exiled.
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#3
Heaven Sent + Widespread Thieving + Barbara Wright + Mirrormade
Near-infinite damageNear-infinite storm count
- 1Cast Heaven Sent by paying .
- 2Widespread Thieving and Mirrormade trigger, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 3Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 4Resolve Heaven Sent, choosing to have it enter the battlefield with three chapter counters on it due to its read ahead ability.
- 5Heaven Sent's third chapter ability triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent, and causing you to draw seven cards if an opponent has 0 or less life, or otherwise exile Heaven Sent with the ability to play it this turn.
- 6If Heaven Sent was exiled this way, repeat until Heaven Sent is not exiled.
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#4
Heaven Sent + Widespread Thieving + Barbara Wright + Mirage Mirror
Near-infinite damageNear-infinite storm count
- 1Activate Mirage Mirror by paying
, causing it to become a copy of Widespread Thieving until end of turn. - 2Cast Heaven Sent by paying .
- 3Widespread Thieving and Mirage Mirror trigger, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 4Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 5Resolve Heaven Sent, choosing to have it enter the battlefield with three chapter counters on it due to its read ahead ability.
- 6Heaven Sent's third chapter ability triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent, and causing you to draw seven cards if an opponent has 0 or less life, or otherwise exile Heaven Sent with the ability to play it this turn.
- 7If Heaven Sent was exiled this way, repeat from step 2 until Heaven Sent is not exiled.
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#5
Widespread Thieving + Painter's Servant + Shrieking Drake
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite storm count
- 1Cast Shrieking Drake by paying .
- 2Widespread Thieving triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 3When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 5Repeat.
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#6
Heaven Sent + Widespread Thieving + Barbara Wright + Primal Vigor
Near-infinite damageNear-infinite storm count
- 1Cast Heaven Sent by paying .
- 2Widespread Thieving triggers, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 3Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 4Resolve Heaven Sent, choosing to have it enter the battlefield with three chapter counters on it due to its read ahead ability.
- 5Heaven Sent's third chapter ability triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent, and causing you to draw seven cards if an opponent has 0 or less life, or otherwise exile Heaven Sent with the ability to play it this turn.
- 6If Heaven Sent was exiled this way, repeat until Heaven Sent is not exiled.
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#7
Heaven Sent + Widespread Thieving + Doubling Season + Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Near-infinite artifact tokensNear-infinite Clue tokensNear-infinite damageNear-infinite storm count
- 1Cast Heaven Sent by paying .
- 2Widespread Thieving triggers, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 3Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 4Resolve Heaven Sent, causing it to enter the battlefield with four chapter counters on it due to Doubling Season and Vorinclex.
- 5Heaven Sent's first, second and third chapter ability trigger.
- 6Resolve the first and second triggers, creating two Clue artifact tokens.
- 7Resolve the third trigger, dealing 1 damage to each opponent, and causing you to draw seven cards if an opponent has 0 or less life, or otherwise exile Heaven Sent with the ability to play it this turn.
- 8If Heaven Sent was exiled this way, repeat until Heaven Sent is not exiled.
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#8
Heaven Sent + Widespread Thieving + Barbara Wright + Jolene, the Plunder Queen
Near-infinite storm countNear-infinite damage
- 1Cast Heaven Sent by paying .
- 2Widespread Thieving triggers, creating two Treasure artifact tokens.
- 3Activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 4Resolve Heaven Sent, choosing to have it enter the battlefield with three chapter counters on it due to its read ahead ability.
- 5Heaven Sent's third chapter ability triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent, and causing you to draw seven cards if an opponent has 0 or less life, or otherwise exile Heaven Sent with the ability to play it this turn.
- 6If Heaven Sent was exiled this way, repeat until Heaven Sent is not exiled.
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Legal formats
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