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Change of Fortune

Sorcery3 generic manaRed mana

The catch is buried in the wording: draw a card for each card you've discarded this turn, not just for the cards this spell throws away. On its own, dumping a fresh five-card hand and drawing five back is a wheel with a red paint job, symmetric-feeling and unremarkable. The design intent lives in the phrase "this turn," which turns the sorcery into a payoff for the discard already spooling through a red deck: madness enablers, looting effects, cheap rummaging, anything that has been feeding the graveyard before this resolves. Every card pitched earlier in the turn stacks onto the draw count, so a spell that reads as a break-even refill becomes a genuine surplus once the discard engine is running ahead of it. That reframes the card entirely. It is not the wheel; it is the reward for having a reason to discard in the first place, converting the resource red usually treats as spent fuel into raw cards. The tension is timing: because it discards your hand first, you want to be nearly empty by the time it resolves, having already cashed those cards for value, so the count is high and the loss is low. Played out that way, it is less a card-advantage spell than a payoff bolted onto a discard subtheme, useless without the setup and quietly excellent with it.

Change of Fortune (pvow)
PVOW · #150srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Discard your hand, then draw a card for each card you've discarded this turn.
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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