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Visionary's Dance

Sorcery5 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

The whole design lives in the discard clause. Seven mana for two 3/3 fliers is a rate no serious deck pays, which is exactly the point: this sorcery is unlikely to ever be cast for its front side. Instead it sits in hand as a two-mana one-shot dig you can fire on any turn you have the mana and would rather smooth your draws than commit to a spell. That inverts how most cards weigh their alternate modes: the "real" spell becomes the escape hatch, and the throwaway text is the reason to run it. The dig itself is honest work: two cards deep, one to hand and one binned, which feeds graveyard synergies while filtering your top of library. The discard cost is the catch that stops it from being pure card advantage. Firing the ability spends the whole card, tokens and all, so it is a genuine trade: filtering and fuel bought at the price of retiring the spell for good. You cannot dig early and keep the fliers in reserve for a later turn; choosing the ability closes the front door permanently. Designs shaped this way (a heavy payoff mode wrapped around a cheap sacrificial activation from hand) surface whenever a color pair wants a card that can be pitched to smooth draws while still holding a distant late-game plan in the same slot. The distinctive thing here is how lopsided the two halves are: the discard mode is what you will almost always take, and the tokens exist mostly to justify the ink.

Visionary's Dance (sos)
SOS · #242common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Create two 3/3 blue and red Elemental creature tokens with flying. 2 generic mana, Discard this card: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

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