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Time Bends to My Will

Scheme

Extra turns are the most abused effect in the game, so the schemes rely on the built-in governor rather than a spell's own restriction: this one dispenses a single bonus turn, and the untap-step skip is the toll. That clause matters more than it looks. A normal extra-turn spell leaves you fully reloaded; here the new turn opens with everything still tapped, so lands that made mana are dead, attackers stay committed, and any activated ability you leaned on is offline until you naturally untap. The archenemy gets a turn to draw, play a land, and cast whatever is already in hand, but not a turn of doubled resources. That is the design bargain for a card costing nothing to set in motion and asking nothing to resolve: with a whole table of players bearing down on one villain, taking two turns in a row can be back-breaking, and the skipped untap is the pressure valve throttling how much value that second turn actually delivers. It reads like a gift and plays like a tempo swing with a hangover attached.

Time Bends to My Will (dsc)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When you set this scheme in motion, take an extra turn after this one. Skip the untap step of that turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
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