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Scrollshift

Instant2 generic manaWhite mana

White's blink instants have always come with a fee: you spend a card to reset a permanent's entry effect or shield it from removal, and you end the turn one resource lighter. This one waives that cost. The exile-and-return package is the same protection-and-reset white has offered since the earliest flicker effects, but the trailing draw refills the hand rather than depleting it, and that single line rewrites what the spell is for. Because the return is immediate rather than delayed to end of turn, this is no way to smuggle a creature past a wrath; the permanent is back on the battlefield before the sweeper resolves. What it buys at instant speed is a fizzle on targeted removal (exile the creature in response and the spell loses its target), a fresh arrival trigger off a body like Blade Splicer, or a counter reset on your own artifact or enchantment. The load-bearing clause is "up to one target." With nothing worth blinking, the spell simply cantrips, so a hand-clogged draw becomes a clean card swap rather than a dead slot. That floor is the difference from the protective instants that came before, which forced a choice between holding up defense for a specific creature and keeping the slot live for anything else. Here the flexibility and the protection ride together in one white instant, and the cantrip guarantees neither goes to waste.

Scrollshift (mom)
MOM · #34common
Pricing
Normal: $0.39
Foil: $0.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Draw a card.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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