Rotating Fireplace

Rotating Fireplace

Mana Cost: {3}

Type: Artifact

Oracle Text:
This artifact enters tapped with a time counter on it.
{T}: Add an amount of {C} equal to the number of time counters on this artifact.
{4}, {T}: Time travel. Activate only as a sorcery. (For each suspended card you own and each permanent you control with a time counter on it, you may add or remove a time counter.)

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: rare

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Expansion: Doctor Who

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Character Background

Rotating Fireplace is a slow-burning value and combo piece that favors control and late-game ramp strategies: it enters tapped with a time counter and becomes a scalable colorless source ({T}: Add C equal to its time counters), so it pays off as games drag on and you stack counters across your board. The {4},{T}: Time travel ability is the real engine — as a sorcery it lets you redistribute time counters among suspended cards and time-counter permanents, enabling tactical acceleration or delay of key effects. Build around a suspend package and other time-counter cards (specific synergies include suspended draw spells like Ancestral Vision and old-school pieces like Time Vault) and include artifact tutors, protection, and ways to generate multiple time-counter permanents so Rotating Fireplace’s mana grows quickly. Be mindful of the early tempo loss; play it in shells that can stall (control) or that combo off once several counters are amassed, then Time travel to either speed up a win condition or consolidate mana for a decisive turn.

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