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Unstable Amulet

Artifact1 generic manaRed mana

Two engines that normally sit in separate decks get bolted together here, and the seam is where the card gets interesting. The tap ability spends two energy to impulse-draw the top card and lets you play it on your own schedule, which turns around and satisfies the middle clause: a Pyromancer-style ping that fires not on instants and sorceries but on any spell cast from a zone other than your hand. Impulse-draw, flashback, adventure, foretell, and every other cast-from-elsewhere line becomes incidental damage to each opponent. The energy is what meters the loop. The entering trigger hands you exactly one activation; everything after has to be paid for by other energy sources, so a deck built around the counter gets a rolling advantage machine while a splash gets a single dig and a dead artifact. The two clauses feed each other in a tight circle: the impulse draw generates the cast-from-exile trigger, the trigger burns the opponent, and the more of your gameplan lives outside your hand, the harder the circle turns. It reads less like a value rock and more like a small combustion chamber, converting cast-from-nonhand triggers into face damage while it supplies the cards that generate those triggers. Energy, usually a closed loop that generates and spends inside one archetype, here becomes the fuel gauge on a reach-and-card-advantage engine.

Unstable Amulet (mh3)
MH3 · #421uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this artifact enters, you get EnergyEnergy (two energy counters). Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this artifact deals 1 damage to each opponent. Tap, Pay EnergyEnergy: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it until you exile another card with this artifact.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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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