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Dusk Rose Reliquary

ArtifactWhite mana

White has never lacked for cheap, permanent-based exile: Banishing Light, Oblivion Ring, and their many descendants tuck away a threat for a modest mana price and ask nothing else of you. This one demands a body. You cannot cast it without feeding an artifact or creature you already control into the effect, which keeps it out of the hands of any white deck that would otherwise jam it as a clean answer. That surcharge points the card squarely at aristocrats and sacrifice engines: it converts a spent permanent of your own into an opponent's spent threat, laundering fodder into disruption. The Ward 2 generic mana does defensive work the older "exile until this leaves" permanents never had. Those answers were notoriously fragile, since destroying the ring handed the exiled threat right back, and a cheap Disenchant or Nature's Claim could unravel the whole investment for a pittance. Taxing the removal on your removal forces the opponent to pay real mana to reclaim what you took, closing exactly the vulnerability that has kept this family of exile-permanents honest for years. It is a small artifact doing three jobs at once: it turns your own dying permanents into interaction, it survives the pressure that used to break its predecessors, and it rewards a deck already built to throw its creatures away.

Dusk Rose Reliquary (lci)
LCI · #10uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.40
Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Ward 2 generic mana When this artifact enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls until this artifact leaves the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

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