Brackish Blunder

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Character Background

Brackish Blunder is a one-mana blue instant that neatly straddles tempo and slow-value roles: the Map token and the "Brackish" title evoke misnavigation and exploration, fitting Ixalan's caverns-and-maps flavor. As a tempo play it bounces an opposing blocker or attacker to preserve card advantage and buy a turn, and as value it can create a Map token whenever the bounced creature was tapped, converting a tempo play into long-term advantage. The Map’s “sacrifice to make a creature explore” ability rewards attacking or tapping your own creature before bouncing it, or knocking tapped attackers off the board and turning them into dig/growth later; because the Map is an artifact and its ability can only be activated as a sorcery, plan to use it on your main phase. Synergies include shells that want repeatable ETB abuse (bounce-to-reuse creatures like Mulldrifter-type effects), Delver/tempo lists that pair cheap interaction with evasive threats, and decks that exploit artifacts or explore effects. In short, run multiple copies in any blue tempo/value deck and sequence the bounce to maximize Map production.

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