Book

CardDMTCRGp. 182014

An enormous book rests among scrolls and parchment, with a quill and ink nearby. The Book card embodies written information.

Upright Meaning

Person. A writer, poet, or compulsive note-taker.
Creature or Trap. A creature that keeps an exhaustive diary in some form, or that seeks a scribe to record its deeds.
Place. A scriptorium or printing press.
Treasure. A valuable or magical pen, an ink vial, or a set of pigments (such as Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments).
Situation. A situation that requires gleaning information from written clues.

Reversed Meaning

Person. A well-educated person who reads often.
Creature or Trap. A trap involving written runes (such as a Glyph of Warding or Symbol spell).
Place. A library or another storehouse of written knowledge.
Treasure. A valuable or magical written work, such as a book or scroll.
Situation. Secrets that should never have been discovered but were written down.

Raw data

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    "credit": "Ivan Shavrin",
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            {
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            {
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