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Breakthrough

uncommon · Sorcery · The List
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$0.25
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Oracle Text

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

Card Details

-/-Power / Toughness
{X}{U}Mana Cost
5Prints

Character Background

Breakthrough is a classic blue card-selection spell that feels tailor-made for combo and graveyard-centric control, letting you turn a cluttered hand into exactly the pieces you need. For {X}{U}, you draw four and then keep only X cards, so the spell scales from a modest smoothing tool into a high-risk, high-reward enabler when X is small. In practice, that means you can dump extra lands, redundant interaction, or flashback-style cards into the graveyard while preserving the best engine piece, counterspell, or finisher. It pairs especially well with decks that actively want cards discarded, such as reanimation or threshold-style strategies, and it can even function as a setup card for delirium. In tempo shells, keep X low to refuel cheaply; in combo decks, use it to dig aggressively and sculpt a precise hand.

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Character Background

Breakthrough is a classic blue card-selection spell that feels tailor-made for combo and graveyard-centric control, letting you turn a cluttered hand into exactly the pieces you need. For {X}{U}, you draw four and then keep only X cards, so the spell scales from a modest smoothing tool into a high-risk, high-reward enabler when X is small. In practice, that means you can dump extra lands, redundant interaction, or flashback-style cards into the graveyard while preserving the best engine piece, counterspell, or finisher. It pairs especially well with decks that actively want cards discarded, such as reanimation or threshold-style strategies, and it can even function as a setup card for delirium. In tempo shells, keep X low to refuel cheaply; in combo decks, use it to dig aggressively and sculpt a precise hand.

Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-09-16 12:40:44 UTC

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