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Study Break

Instant1 generic manaWhite mana

Tapping two creatures for two mana is soft removal that undoes itself: it neutralizes a pair of attackers or blockers at instant speed, but they stand back up on the next untap step, which puts it closer to a targeted Fog than to a real answer. The interesting choice is what the design bolts on. Rather than let a narrow combat trick rot in hand across the games where the board never breaks the way it needs to, the spell folds card selection into the same cast. Learn guarantees a floor: pull a Lesson you own into your hand, or rummage a card away to draw a fresh one. So the tap can be entirely irrelevant and the card still earns its slot, converting a dead interactive spell into hand-fixing. That is the whole proposition. The ceiling is a two-creature tempo swing on a crackback or at end of combat; the floor is a filtered draw when the tap does nothing. Keeping the impact deliberately modest (the creatures come back, no lasting removal) is what lets the flexibility carry the card, and flexibility is exactly the axis Learn was built to reward. The cost of admission is only a Lesson or two held in reserve, and the payoff is a combat intervention that refuses to be a blank.

Study Break (stx)
STX · #34common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap up to two target creatures. Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to 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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