In order to get a sense of how many cards across all Magic sets feature books in their art, I searched the Gatherer and Scryfall card databases using the following bibliographic key words: book, tome, codex, library, librarian, archivist, archive, page, read, scroll, biblio, folio, grimoire Out of around 22,000 cards, this turned up approximately 100 cards
Its worth mentioning Scheming Fence enters as, meaning its not a triggered ability, so people cant sacrifice/destroy/exile the permanent youre choosing, just like with Spark Double
While we've seen similar effects before, the only one that's Modern legal is the six-mana Time Stop, which is simply too expensive to see tournament-level play
Game shops will typically buy any card thats worth more than 50 cents or so, but theyre going to offer something called buylist prices. These are considerably cheaper prices than what they sell, so youre going to take a 10-20% hit on the value of your cards if you go this route
Their defining trait is that all of the cards in the deck are highly synergistic, such as all being the same tribe or card type
But averages hide the real story
