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Anchor to the Aether

Sorcery2 generic manaBlue mana

Most tempo bounce sends a creature to its owner's hand, which the opponent can recast next turn at the cost of a card and a tempo swing. This does something colder: it lands the creature on top of its owner's library, so the opponent doesn't just have to recast the threat, they have to redraw it first, wasting their next natural draw pulling back something they already had. That top-of-library placement is a one-turn tax on the opponent's draw step, and the scry attached to it lets the caster smooth their own next draw at the same moment. The asymmetry is the entire construction: against a key threat, the effect buys a full turn of development for both the bounce and the draw the opponent burns dredging the same creature back up. The cost of that power is targeting restraint and timing. As a sorcery, it can't be held for a combat trick or thrown at an attacker, so it works as a proactive tempo play rather than a reactive answer, and nothing about it is permanent: the creature comes back, often the very next turn. This belongs to a line of cheap blue tempo effects that trade card economy for board control, closer to a delayed answer than a removal spell, and its value hides until the opponent's draw step arrives empty of anything new.

Anchor to the Aether (j22)
J22 · #270uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Put target creature on top of its owner's library. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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