Indicate

A sorcery that reads, in full, "Target permanent." It resolves and does nothing: no destruction, no bounce, no counter, no draw, just the act of pointing at something on the battlefield. This is a joke card in the truest structural sense, a bit of rules-text minimalism that works precisely because Magic's targeting system is a real, mechanical thing that ordinarily exists to deliver an effect. Indicate strips the effect away and keeps only the pointing finger. There is a hair of genuine interaction buried in the gag: choosing a target can matter for cards that care about being targeted, and casting a zero-cost sorcery can matter for cards that count spells cast or trigger off them. But the design isn't reaching for that; it's reaching for the laugh of a spell whose entire payload is "I have selected this permanent, and now we both watch nothing happen." It belongs to the lineage of un-set humor pieces that treat the game's plumbing as the punchline rather than dressing up a functional card in silly flavor, and it sits at the extreme end of that tradition: not a bad card, not a weak card, but a card that has deliberately declined to have an effect at all.