Libraries (Magic: The Gathering)

A wizard’s library contains the mana-powered rituals a planeswalker knows, or represents a subset of those rituals, as many planeswalkers collect a tremendous number of these rituals in their lifetimes. A planeswalker must “stock” their library with mana-powered rituals which they intend to keep ready using the Readied Rituals advantage and can store one such spell for each rank of that advantage which they possess. Stocking a ritual normally takes 1 hour (Time rank 9).

Planeswalkers tend to stock their libraries with their favorite rituals unless they expect to engage in a duel with one or more other planeswalkers, in which case they stock the rituals they expect will be most efficacious in the upcoming contest.

The Spell Library feature provides a +2 circumstance bonus to Expertise checks made to prepare and perform rituals with which it is currently stocked. With each additional Spell Library rank, the planeswalker gains the equivalent of a +5 bonus to Expertise: Magic when determining the total effect cost of stocked rituals which may be readied in advance (but not to any checks to prepare or perform the ritual) up to a +20 bonus with 5 Library ranks.

For example, a planeswalker with a +19 Expertise: Magic skill can normally only ready rituals with an effect point cost of 19 or less. With a rank 3 Library, they can ready any stocked ritual with a total effect cost of 29 or less and have a +2 bonus to prepare or perform such rituals.

Wizard’s Library

Size: Huge Toughness: 8 Features: Isolated, Library, Living Space, Security System, Spell Library 2, Teleport Lock • 11 points.

Note: The concept of Readied Rituals appears in the Gadget Guides sourcebook. It is a type of Benefit Advantage that simply allows a character with the Ritualist Advantage to prepare and perform a ritual without completing it, keeping it “paused” and ready for later use. It can then be activated as a Standard Action. Characters can only “ready” rituals with a total point cost that is less than or equal to their Expertise: Magic skill bonus and the number of ranks a character can have in the Readied Rituals Benefit is limited by the series power level. Casting a ready ritual requires a standard action.

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