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Unravel the Aether

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

Naturalize is the green answer everyone knows: destroy the artifact or enchantment and let the rubble fall into a graveyard. The shuffle clause here picks a different verb, and the verb is the whole identity. Against indestructible permanents, the divine and otherwise immortal threats this kind of effect was built to chase, destruction whiffs entirely; a shuffle removes the permanent regardless of how unkillable it claims to be. The cost is permanence. Rather than landing in a graveyard the owner can mine, the threat goes back into the library, where it survives to be drawn again and disrupts nothing else they had planned. You are buying answers to things destruction cannot touch and paying for it in the chance to face the same permanent twice. Instant speed matters more than the modest rate suggests, because the value of shuffling away an indestructible permanent usually lives in a single window: in response to an activation, on the stack before a transforming permanent flips face up, or mid-combat once the thing has already committed to the board. It sits in the same design family as the bounce and exile answers green normally lacks: each one swaps destruction's verb to dodge the protections destruction runs into. The choice between this and a strict destroy effect is not about efficiency; it is about which immunities you expect to be reaching past.

Unravel the Aether (pio)
PIO · #198common
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $1.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into their library.
Legalities

Format Status

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