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Run Aground

Instant3 generic manaBlue mana

Where the target lands is the whole design: not back in hand, but on top of its owner's library. Against an opponent's permanent, that placement is a soft one-shot denial effect wearing a tempo-bounce costume. A standard bounce hands the threat back and frees the opponent to recast it alongside a fresh draw; putting it on top instead strands them on a known top card and eats their next draw step. They spend a card and their mana replaying the thing you already answered, and see nothing new for the turn. That stolen draw is the only real edge over a cheaper return-to-hand spell, and the price makes it a hard sell: four mana is steep for a tempo play, and instant speed alone is thin justification when so many two-mana options do the returning for less. The flexible target line (artifact or creature, at instant speed) buys reach a color-locked or type-locked answer lacks, but it never outruns being overpriced for what it accomplishes. Aim it at your own board and the top-of-library clause turns against you: you get to reset a permanent and cash its entry effect again, but you also spend your following draw redrawing what you already owned. That self-targeting line exists as a corner case, not the axis the card is built around. What it offers, in the end, is a way to buy exactly one turn by robbing an opponent of exactly one card.

Run Aground (xln)
XLN · #72common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Put target artifact or creature on top of its owner's library.
Legalities

Format Status

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