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Boon of the Wish-Giver

Sorcery4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The design trick here is charging you a full six mana for four cards while quietly refusing to make you pay it. Six mana for Draw four is a rate no deck wants at face value; the effect wants to cost less and the body of the card knows it. What the cycling clause does is turn the whole sorcery into a floor rather than a ceiling: for a single mana it becomes a cantrip you toss away when you flooded out or drew the wrong half of your hand, and only in the late game, when a card advantage refuel actually matters, do you cast it for the top. That optionality is the entire pitch. A dead-weight bulk-draw spell would rot in your opening hand; this one never has a bad moment to be holding it, because the worst case is a one-mana replacement and the best case is a game-ending refill. It belongs to the lineage of cards that hedge a slow, expensive effect behind a cheap escape hatch, letting a deck run a top-end payoff without paying the tax of a clunky early draw. The number four is deliberately high enough that hard-casting it feels like a real turn; the cycling cost is deliberately low enough that you rarely regret the slot.

Boon of the Wish-Giver (ltc)
LTC · #185uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Draw four cards. Cycling 1 generic mana (1 generic mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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
N/A
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