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Emergency Powers

Instant5 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

A wheel effect dressed as a control finisher. The base mode is the symmetrical reset that has trailed blue since the Power Nine: everyone shuffles hand and graveyard back into the library and refills to seven, resetting both players' card economies at once. What breaks that symmetry is the addendum clause. Cast it during a main phase, yours, and you may cheat a permanent of mana value seven or less straight out of the fresh grip onto the battlefield: a Dragon, a walker, an artifact engine that would otherwise cost most of a turn to hard-cast. The seven-cards-then-a-free-permanent line is the payoff, and it rewards drawing into your bombs rather than sculpting toward them across multiple draws. The self-exile clause is the tax that keeps the reset from becoming a loop: one wheel per copy, no recursion, no infinite refill. The seven-mana price sets up the real tension. Held up during an opponent's turn, it collapses to a pure instant-speed reset, a way to blank a full grip or reload after a stalled board, but the addendum evaporates the moment you cast it reactively (the clause only checks your own main phase). So each copy forces a decision at the point of casting: the one-sided swing that puts a bomb on the table, or the defensive symmetrical reset that answers a threatening hand. Never both from the same cast.

Emergency Powers (rna)
RNA · #169mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.70
Foil: $2.58
Oracle Text

Rules text

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Exile Emergency Powers. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may put a permanent card with mana value 7 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
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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