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Deglamer

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

Where Naturalize and its kin destroy, this one shuffles, and the swap of zones is the whole reason it exists. By moving the artifact or enchantment into its owner's library rather than the graveyard, it sidesteps the death triggers and "when this is put into a graveyard" recursion clauses that a permanent built to be sacrificed or to die wants to bank on. A card meant to come back from the yard simply does not: it goes back into the deck as a random draw, and the tempo spent reclaiming it evaporates. That makes it the answer of choice against indestructible permanents and against engines that profit from hitting the graveyard, the cases where straightforward destruction either fails outright or hands the opponent exactly what they were angling for. Note the precise boundary, though: "leaves the battlefield" triggers still fire, because the permanent is genuinely changing zones; only the graveyard-specific payoffs go unfed. The instant speed matters for when you commit to the answer, not for what it can reach: you have to catch the permanent while it sits on the battlefield, before it dies or gets sacrificed, so the timing is about beating an activation rather than fishing something out of the yard. The cost of that precision is information and finality: you learn nothing about when the opponent redraws the thing, and against a singleton threat the shuffle is a delay rather than the clean removal a destroy effect promises. It is green's recurring admission that "destroy" and "remove" are not synonyms, and that the graveyard is sometimes the last place a problem permanent should land.

Deglamer (mor)
MOR · #118common
Pricing
Normal: $1.21
Foil: $9.01
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into their library.
Legalities

Format Status

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