Spin into Myth

Fateseal lives almost entirely on this card, which is most of what makes it a curiosity rather than a staple: a keyword built to manipulate an opponent's draws, stapled to the back of a five-mana bounce. The front half is the recognizable part, a Time Ebb that resets a creature to the top of its owner's library rather than the hand, costing them a draw step to redraw it. The back half is where the design gets pointed, more than it looks. Because the creature goes on top of the library before you fateseal 2, an opposing creature is one of the two cards you then sort, so the rider is not screening the cards behind the bounce: it can tuck the creature itself to the bottom, turning a one-turn delay into a deep burial. That same sequencing lets you bury an unwanted card behind it for good measure. The trouble is the price. Effects that strand a creature on top of the library want to be cheap enough to ride the tempo swing they create, and five mana at instant speed buys a roughly even exchange (a card and the mana for their lost draw) dressed up with a denial rider that only sometimes lands the tuck. As an artifact of where fateseal went, it is the clearest single statement of the mechanic: control over what an opponent draws, framed as the inverse of scrying your own deck, bolted to a rate that never quite paid for it.