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Reality Acid

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaBlue mana

A delayed-fuse Oblivion Ring, with the timer baked into the card rather than left to your opponent. Vanishing turns the Aura into a clock: it lands on any permanent, sits for three of your upkeeps removing a counter each turn, and then sacrifices itself, which triggers the leaves-the-battlefield clause and forces the enchanted permanent's controller to sacrifice it too. The elegance is that it answers things color-blue normally cannot touch (creatures, artifacts, lands, even other enchantments and planeswalkers) by routing the kill through a sacrifice the controller performs, which sidesteps protection, indestructibility, and most regeneration. The cost of that universality is patience: three turns is a long telegraph, and the opponent gets a full window to use, sacrifice, or move the doomed permanent before the fuse burns down. That tension is also where the card's real interest lives. Because removing the Aura is what fires the sacrifice, bouncing or blinking your own Reality Acid resets nothing for the opponent and triggers it immediately, collapsing the three-turn delay into an instant answer the moment you have a way to pick the Aura back up. The same is true if anything destroys it. Build around that interaction and a slow, fair-looking enchantment becomes a repeatable, color-agnostic edict that ignores the usual defenses, which is a far sharper tool than the upkeep-counter text suggests on its own.

Reality Acid (plc)
PLC · #45common
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $4.51
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant permanent Vanishing 3 (This Aura enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When this Aura leaves the battlefield, enchanted permanent's controller sacrifices it.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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