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Seize the Spoils

Sorcery2 generic manaRed mana

Card advantage in red usually comes wrapped in a penalty: exile it end of turn, deal yourself damage, discard your hand. The discipline here is looting instead of raw drawing. You pay a card out of your hand as an additional cost, then replace it and one more, so the net is a two-for-two with selection rather than a pure two-for-one. That framing matters because red is supposed to be the color that struggles to refill, and the discard cost is precisely what keeps this from becoming a blue-tier engine. The Treasure token is the second half of the design, and it does more than smooth mana: it converts a card you no longer wanted into stored energy you can cash later, which means the spell often nets closer to card-neutral while advancing your board or ramping into a bigger turn. That combination (discard fodder becomes a fixed mana rock, and your hand refills to churn through the deck) is what makes it read as a fair effect that plays like an unfair one in the right shell, particularly graveyard and sacrifice strategies that want cards in the bin anyway and a floating artifact to feed. The design bolts red draw to a cost, an old instinct; the Treasure attachment is the newer one, giving the color access to selection and fixing at once and letting the discard clause carry the balance.

Seize the Spoils (gn3)
GN3 · #86common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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