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Dovin's Dismissal

Instant2 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

A conditional bounce with a strange dependency: it only works on a creature that is already tapped, which means the opponent has to have committed it first. Attacking taps it. Crewing a Vehicle or paying a tap cost on an activated ability taps it. Some other effect tapping it down works too. The point is that you cannot reach for this proactively; it is a reactive punish that levies a tempo tax only after the creature has done its job or exposed itself, and putting it on top of library rather than into hand tacks a denied draw onto the setback. As standalone interaction, that is a narrow, unexciting rate. The second clause is the reason the card was designed at all: a tutor for one specifically named planeswalker, pulling it out of either library or graveyard and into hand. That is companion-piece construction, a card written to ship alongside its partner and priced on the assumption you run both. Read alone, it is a middling situational bounce; read as one half of the pair it was authored for, it folds fetch and tempo into a single instant, the kind of build-around glue that only justifies its slot when the named partner is in the deck beside it.

Dovin's Dismissal (rna)
RNA · #267rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Put up to one target tapped creature on top of its owner's library. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Dovin, Architect of Law, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
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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