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Tel-Jilad Stylus

Artifact1 generic mana

The two words doing all the work are "you own," and they redraw the card from removal into damage control. This cannot answer an opponent's threat: it reaches only for permanents under your own ownership, and the destination is the bottom of your library, deliberately far out of reach rather than back in your hand. That looks like pure downside until you remember what the early years offered as a response to your own permanents being turned against you. A control-magic effect steals your creature, and the standard answer was to destroy it and watch it land in your graveyard, intact but gone. This instead reaches across the table, pulls the stolen permanent out from under the thief, and buries it deep in your own deck, costing them their borrowed card with no easy way back as long as the rest of the library stands between them and it. The same valve works on your own side: an enchantment you want gone on your terms, a token-maker about to be caught by a sweeper, a creature you would rather sink than surrender. None of this is recursion, and it is not a loop. That one-way trip to the bottom is what the design is built around: not a reset but a slow burial, and the slowness is what makes it more than a bounce spell. A returned permanent comes right back; a buried one may never resurface. It does one narrow structural job that almost nothing at its cost did when this kind of card first appeared: maintenance for a board you knowingly exposed to theft and sacrifice.

Tel-Jilad Stylus (mrd)
MRD · #260uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.38
Foil: $5.34
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Put target permanent you own on the bottom of your library.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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