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Forced Fruition

Enchantment4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

A gift that is actually a clock, aimed in one direction only. The trigger fires on an opponent's spells, not yours, and every cast hands them seven fresh cards whether they want them or not. The premise weaponizes one of the oldest truths in the game: a player who draws seven extra cards every turn will, sooner or later, run out of library. The seven cards arrive faster than even the most aggressive opponent can convert into board presence, and the deck erodes underneath them. What makes the design hum is the bind it creates. An opponent can slow the bleed only by refusing to cast, which surrenders tempo and hands the controller a free clock to assemble whatever ends the game. It is a soft lock dressed as generosity, punishing the single most fundamental action in Magic by overfeeding it. There is risk on the controller's side too: pouring that many cards into an opponent each turn invites the answer or the attrition that beats you first, and the race becomes closing before the overdraw turns into their resource rather than their grave. This is the lineage of effects that turn drawing into a liability, the same axis that makes mill a kill condition. Where most of that work happens in black or against a single library, this one does it from blue, applied to everything an opponent casts, and lets the count run itself out.

Forced Fruition (sld)
SLD · #1177rare
Pricing
Normal: $12.26
Foil: $12.88
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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