Prismari Command

The Command chassis is one of the oldest four-mode structures in the game: pick two off a menu, cover a spread of situations no single spell could. Where this one distinguishes itself from the Cryptic Command lineage it descends from is in where the modes point. Two of the four are pure velocity: the loot mode digs while pitching fuel to the graveyard, and the Treasure mode fixes mana or hands a spellslinger deck a ritual on a stick. The other two are interaction: two damage to any target, or destroy target artifact. That mix means the card almost never rots in hand. With no target in sight, you are still smoothing draws and setting up the next turn; when you do have a target, you fold the answer into a hand-filtering play. The two-damage mode is deliberately modest, enough to clear a mana dork or a utility creature but not a real threat, which is the restraint that keeps a three-mana instant of this flexibility from warping games. The design instinct is coherence over raw power: every mode is something a blue-red tempo or ramp deck actually wants to be doing, so the "choose two" never forces a dead half. Only the interaction-plus-interaction split (destroy an artifact and kill a creature) is a true two-for-one; the velocity modes trade a card in hand for board development and selection. It is a workmanlike Command, tuned so its floor is always relevant rather than a coin flip on whether the modes matter.