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Fate Foretold

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaBlue mana

Most auras stake a card on a creature and hope it survives; this one refunds itself the moment it resolves. The enter-the-battlefield draw means you have replaced the card you spent, so the question stops being "is this worth a card" and becomes "what do I want the death trigger to do." It is worth being precise about what the aura actually does to the board: nothing. It grants no stats, no keywords, no debuff. The enchanted creature is unchanged. Both draw triggers carry the entire payoff, which makes this less a combat tool than a graveyard-aware cantrip wearing an aura's clothing. The second clause is where the design earns its place, because it inverts the usual aura risk. Normally a removal spell on your enchanted creature is a two-for-one against you; here, when the body dies, its controller draws, so the trade comes back to parity. Sacrifice it, chump-block with it, let it eat a kill spell: the death is the payoff rather than the catastrophe. The wording carries a deliberate wrinkle, though. The trigger reads "its controller," so hanging this on an opponent's creature hands their hand a card when it dies, not yours. That steers the card toward your own board, or toward the narrow builds that want to gift cards as a means to some other end. The honest cost is tempo: two mana that move no damage on the turn you spend them. The payoff is an aura that never leaves you down a card for trying.

Fate Foretold (ths)
THS · #48common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. When enchanted creature dies, its controller draws a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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