Opposition Agent

Search effects had always carried an implicit trust: when your opponent cracks a fetchland or resolves a tutor, the game assumes they get to keep what they find. This turns that trust into a trap. Because it flashes in, the threat stays hidden until the exact instant a library search begins, and at that moment control of the search transfers away from its owner. The punishment scales with the crime: a fetchland tapped for fixing costs one land, but a tutor for the game-winning combo piece hands that piece to whoever holds this card, castable in any color and playable for as long as it stays exiled. The 3/2 flash body is almost incidental; the design lives in how it converts an entire category of established action into a liability without asking its own controller to change anything about how they play. What makes it so pointed is that the effect cannot be sequenced around once the search has started, only foreseen and avoided by not searching at all. It functions as a standing wager placed against the entire tutor-and-fetch economy, and it collects the moment an opponent reaches for their library, at the one timing window where backing out is no longer an option.