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Synthetic Destiny

Instant4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The trick is the count. This does not resurrect your board so much as launder it, exiling every creature you control (permanently: those creatures are gone) and then asking the library to refill exactly as many slots as you emptied. Exile four tokens and the end-step trigger digs until it reveals four creature cards, so a battlefield of one-drop chaff becomes the four biggest threats waiting in your deck. The instant-speed window is what rewards a planner. With a sweeper on the stack, the exile clause pulls your team out of harm's way, letting the delayed trigger deploy fresh bodies once that sweeper resolves into an empty board. Hold it against spot removal aimed at a key creature and you can whisk that creature to exile before the removal resolves, then reload with something better. Because the originals are exiled rather than destroyed, nothing here feeds death triggers or aristocrat payoffs; the new creatures arrive as clean entries with their enter-the-battlefield effects intact, no summoning-sickness relief but no baggage either. What pays for the upgrade is the gap between exile and reveal: the replacements appear at the beginning of the next end step, so there is a real stretch (within this turn if you cast it early, into an opponent's turn if you wait) where you control no creatures at all. This is a polymorph effect scaled up from one sacrificial body to a whole go-wide board, trading a fistful of small things for a handful of your deck's largest, one slot at a time.

Synthetic Destiny (c15)
C15 · #15rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile all creatures you control. At the beginning of the next end step, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards, put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.
Legalities

Format Status

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