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Ray of Distortion

Instant3 generic manaWhite mana

Disenchant, twice. That is the whole proposition: a hard answer to any artifact or enchantment, with a second use already loaded into the graveyard. The front side is deliberately overpriced (the same destroy-target effect has cost two mana since the game's earliest sets), and the flashback rate is steeper still, but the arithmetic was never about the first cast. Flashback was built to fold card advantage into a single card, and on a removal spell that means a two-for-one against permanent-based decks: one answer now, one held in reserve for whatever they rebuild. The graveyard becomes the second copy you never had to draw. Against an opponent leaning on a problem artifact or a key enchantment, the relevant question is not whether you can destroy it but whether you can destroy it again after they replace it, and this card answers yes from one deck slot. The trade-off is tempo: every casting is sorcery-speed-expensive even at instant speed, and the flashback half demands a heavy double-white commitment in the late turns where it is meant to be cast. What it buys is resilience in a grindy attrition fight, two waves of enchantment removal squeezed out of a single inclusion. It is a utility answer designed for the long game, where the second use justifies a rate the first never could.

Ray of Distortion (ody)
ODY · #42common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.98
Oracle Text

Rules text

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Flashback 4 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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