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The Moment

The Moment

Mana Cost: {2}

Type: Legendary Artifact

Oracle Text:
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on The Moment.
{2}, {T}: Untap target creature you control. It phases out until The Moment leaves the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of time counters on The Moment. Then sacrifice The Moment. Activate only as a sorcery.

Power/Toughness: -/-

Rarity: rare

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Expansion: Doctor Who

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Character Background

The Moment plays like a slow-burning control piece with a tempo twist: it accumulates time counters as a delayed board wipe while offering a way to temporarily tuck and protect your own threats. Thematically it reads as a “time bomb” that you charge over turns, then detonate to exile everything below a sliding mana-value threshold, which makes it excellent against wide aggro or low-cost decks and for resetting messy boards. Practical play: phase out key creatures preemptively to shield them from your own blast, then choose the timing to sacrifice The Moment when the counter total clears the opponent’s curve. Build around it with proliferate or counter-doubling effects (Inexorable Tide or Doubling Season) to reach lethal thresholds faster, and include reliable mana rocks (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet) so you can pay its activated costs repeatedly and a sacrifice outlet if you want to trigger the wipe at a precise moment. Because it’s legendary, treat it as a centerpiece rather than a one-off.

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