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Leyline of Anticipation

Enchantment2 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Granting your whole deck flash sounds like a build-around and plays like a license to break the rules of sequencing. Every creature becomes an ambush blocker, every planeswalker arrives at the end of an opponent's turn, every sorcery-speed enabler waits until it can be deployed with information the caster didn't have when the turn began. The pivot is the timing axis: it does not change what your spells do, only when you are allowed to do it, and that conversion of static cards into reactive ones is worth far more than the four mana implies. The Leyline shell is the real trick. Free deployment off the opening hand sidesteps the only genuine weakness a four-mana enchantment with no immediate impact would have, namely that it does nothing the turn you spend tapping out for it. Drawn off the top it is a fine if unexciting fourth-turn play; sitting on the battlefield before the first untap step, it warps the entire game from the opening exchange. That conditional zero-cost start is the lever the rest of the Leyline cycle shares, and it is what separates this from a card that simply reads "your spells have flash." The ceiling is an opponent forced to play every turn as though you are holding open mana, because you genuinely could be casting anything at any time.

Leyline of Anticipation (wot)
WOT · #23rare
Pricing
Normal: $8.08
Foil: $14.76
Oracle Text

Rules text

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.
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
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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