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Visions of Ruin

Sorcery3 generic manaRed mana

Multiplayer artifact hate has always faced the same math problem: symmetrical destruction spreads its cost across every opponent but pays the caster once, so a Vandalblast or Shatterstorm clears the board and leaves you no further ahead than the neighbor who did nothing. This flips that ledger. Every artifact your opponents sacrifice hands you a Treasure, converting their removed permanents directly into your ramp. In a four-player game where three opponents each lose an artifact, you clear three problem permanents and bank three Treasures for the turn's next play, turning a tax into an engine. The flashback clause is where the design reveals what it is built for: an 8 generic manaRed manaRed mana recast reduced by the mana value of your commander, a cost structure that only exists in a format with a command zone. Cast a sufficiently expensive commander and the graveyard recast becomes trivially cheap, letting the same sorcery come back for a second wave of forced sacrifices and a second round of Treasure. The scaling is deliberately keyed to commander size, so the more top-heavy your general, the more the back half of the card gives you: a piece of removal that grows more repeatable in exactly the decks least likely to be short on artifacts to punish.

Visions of Ruin (mic)
MIC · #36rare
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Normal: $0.48
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Each opponent sacrifices an artifact. For each artifact sacrificed this way, you create a Treasure token. Flashback 8 generic manaRed manaRed mana. This spell costs X generic mana less to cast this way, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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