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Interdimensional Web Watch

Artifact4 generic mana

Impulse-draw effects usually hand you cards for free and then dare you to cast them before the window slams shut; the friction lives in the mana, since you often tapped out just to deploy the digging in the first place. This design pairs the two halves and keeps them apart in a useful way. The enters trigger exiles the top two cards with a play-window that stretches through your next turn, the familiar impulse half. But the artifact does not leave once it has done that: it stays on the battlefield as a permanent mana rock, and its tap ability produces two mana of any colors, spendable on any spell cast from exile. That last clause is broader than it first reads. The mana is not welded to the two cards it just showed you; it funds anything you are casting from exile, so it pays for foretold cards, the creature half of an Adventure card, a cascade hit, or the spoils of any other impulse effect on the board. Restricting the rock to exile-casting narrows it away from generic ramp: you cannot accelerate your hand with it, only your exile pile. The result rewards building around exile-casting rather than a one-shot rummaging trinket, and the two-turn window on its own trigger gives you room to untap, find the colored mana you were missing, and cash a spell that would otherwise have expired uncast.

Interdimensional Web Watch (pspm)
PSPM · #165srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this artifact enters, exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. Tap: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast spells from exile.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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