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Doom's Time Platform

Artifact4 generic mana

Suspend has always been a spell-side mechanic, a way to buy something cheap now and pay for it in patience. This flips the vector: instead of casting a card from hand under a suspend clock, it reaches into your graveyard and applies suspend as a recursion engine, keyed off attacking. The two-counter setup means the exiled card ticks down on your next two upkeeps automatically, so the free cast lands on the second turn after the attack that started it; the counters fall on their own regardless of whether the swings keep coming. What the attack trigger does gate is the entry point: this is not a value spigot you can pop at will, it wants a board that attacks turn after turn to keep feeding new cards into the queue, which pins it to an aggressive shell rather than a durdling one. The reward for meeting that condition is a free cast of anything in the yard that isn't a land, with haste attached if it's a creature, so a combat step eventually replenishes itself with a fresh attacker. Because suspend resolves at upkeep rather than in combat, the loop is a staggered spiral rather than a burst: attack, exile, wait two upkeeps, cast, attack again. It rewards a graveyard stocked with high-impact permanents worth the two-turn wait, and does little for a deck that only wants the cheapest thing back the fastest.

Doom's Time Platform (msc)
MSC · #103rare
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Normal: $2.29
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you attack, exile target nonland card from your graveyard with two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)
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Format Status

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