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United Battlefront

Sorcery3 generic manaWhite mana

White rarely gets to cheat permanents into play from the top of the deck; that job has historically belonged to green's ramp and blue's tutoring. This narrows the payoff to a very specific shape: noncreature, nonland permanents costing three or less, meaning enchantments, artifacts, and the occasional cheap planeswalker. The dig of seven combined with two hits makes it a consistent enabler for enchantment- or artifact-matters shells that want a critical density of small permanents on the board fast, not a raw card-advantage engine (everything you do not take goes to the bottom, so there is no residual selection). The design tension is between the width of the dig and the narrowness of what qualifies: seven cards is deep, but if your list runs creatures and expensive bombs, plenty of whiffs are baked in. It rewards decks built around a tight curve of qualifying permanents, where landing two three-drops for four mana is genuine tempo. What it is really doing is giving white a proactive way to assemble a permanent-based board state in one action, the kind of parallel-development effect white usually only gets through tokens. The randomization of the bottomed cards is the quiet cost: no future ordering, no setup for a later draw, just the two things you found and nothing to show for the rest.

United Battlefront (tdm)
TDM · #330rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $0.53
Oracle Text

Rules text

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put up to two noncreature, nonland permanent cards with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

2 sets
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