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Winds of Change

SorceryRed mana

A symmetric hand-reset at one mana, and the symmetry is the point. The card is a study in how to price a wheel: strip the card-quantity guarantee that Wheel of Fortune offers (everyone draws seven) and replace it with a per-player hand-size variable, and the rate collapses to a single red. The catch is that each player draws exactly as many as they shuffled in, so the spell does not refill you for free: empty your hand first and you draw nothing, because you put nothing back. What you can manufacture is a disparity in quality, not quantity. Cast it with a grip of dead cards and you trade them for fresh ones at parity, while an opponent sitting on a carefully assembled hand (counterspells lined up, a combo half-built) is forced to shuffle that work back into a random library and redraw the same number of unknowns. That is the asymmetry the caster controls: the spell is indifferent to card count and brutal to card selection. The disruption is the real function, and the card-draw is incidental, since the value is in scrambling someone else's setup rather than improving your own raw numbers. It belongs to a recognizable family of randomizing wheels (Teferi's Puzzle Box, Wheel of Misfortune), but this is the cleanest early expression of the idea that a per-player variable can do the work a fixed number does, for a single red, if you are willing to weaponize the shuffle.

Winds of Change (ren)
REN · #98uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $21.95
Foil: $21.41
Oracle Text

Rules text

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
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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