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Lantern of the Lost

Artifact1 generic mana

Graveyard hate has always carried a hidden cost: the artifacts that shut off recursion tend to sit in play doing nothing else, dead cardboard against decks that never fill a graveyard. This one answers that objection by folding a cantrip into its exit. It arrives and clips a single card immediately, then holds the threat of a full wipe in reserve, and when it finally fires that wipe it replaces itself in hand. The design logic is that a hate piece which draws a card is never a fully wasted draw, so it earns a slot against unknown fields without the usual anxiety of finding it in a matchup where it accomplishes nothing. The sequencing rewards patience: the enters-the-battlefield exile handles the one card that matters right now (a flashback spell in the yard, an escape enabler, a delve fuel pile), while the activated ability is a delayed nuke you hold until the opponent has committed cards worth denying. Note the shape of that second ability precisely: it exiles everything from every graveyard, including your own, so the timing question it forces is whether your yard is empty or expendable when you pull the trigger. The draw is not a shield for your own recursion (the ability erases that too); it is compensation for spending the artifact entirely, turning a one-shot wipe into a card-neutral one. That is the property that keeps it from ever drawing truly blank.

Lantern of the Lost (vow)
VOW · #259uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. 1 generic mana, Tap, Exile this artifact: Exile all cards from all graveyards, then draw a card.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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