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Ecstatic Beauty

Sorcery2 generic manaRed mana

An impulse-draw sorcery with a recursive twist buried in its final clause: for any of the three exiled cards that carry suspend, it loads four time counters onto them, converting a use-it-or-lose-it impulse into a suspended payoff that stays on a timer instead of expiring at end of turn. That is the design's real trick. A plain top-three effect like Light Up the Stage or Reckless Impulse burns the cards you can't cast this turn; here, any suspend card among the three is quietly banked, ticking down to a free cast rather than vanishing. The counter-loading and the "play until end of turn" clause are two effects that only interlock in a deck built thick with suspend spells, where a whiff on immediate value becomes a delayed one. Fittingly, the card can suspend itself for a single red, so it plays both sides of the mechanic it rewards: it can be the thing you're waiting on, or the thing that starts other things waiting. Without a critical mass of suspend cards underneath it, the counter clause reads as blank and it collapses to an ordinary impulse-three, which is the tension holding its power in check: the ceiling scales directly with how many suspend payoffs sit in the deck below, and nowhere else does its rate move.

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Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play those cards until end of turn. Put four time counters on each of those cards that has suspend. Suspend 4—Red mana
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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