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Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion

Legendary Enchantment // Legendary Land

Card advantage has always been the aggressive deck's open problem: a shell built to empty its hand can't afford to bank resources, so any engine that refills it has to be paid for on tempo rather than turns. The payment here is the impulse model. You exile off the top each upkeep and have to cast it that turn or lose it, which rewards a deck already built to play fast and cheap, not one hoarding cards for later. The transform clause is the second piece of the bargain: three spells in a turn isn't a high bar for a low-curve, spells-matter deck, and clearing it flips a passive draw engine into a repeatable damage source that can finish a stalled board or point three at a face out of burn range. That double identity (enchantment that feeds tempo, land that closes) is the whole design, and it lines up with exactly the shells that struggle most to keep a hand stocked. The flip is permanent, so a real decision is baked into every game: a deck that transforms early trades its card-advantage engine for reach, and one that holds the front face keeps digging while waiting to cross the threshold. It asks you to know which half of the card you actually need, then commit to it, because you don't get to change your mind.

Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion (xln)
XLN · #173rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
Foil: $0.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast that card this turn. Whenever you cast your third spell in a turn, you may transform Vance's Blasting Cannons. // (Transforms from Vance's Blasting Cannons.) Tap: Add Red mana. 2 generic manaRed mana, Tap: Spitfire Bastion deals 3 damage to any target.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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