The Parting of the Ways
Mana Cost:
Type: Enchantment — Saga
Oracle Text:
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile the top five cards of your library. For each nonland card exiled this way, put a number of time counters on that card equal to its mana value. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend.
II — Time travel, then time travel.
III — For each opponent, destroy up to one target artifact that player controls.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
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Expansion: Doctor Who
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Character Background
The Parting of the Ways feels like ripping open timelines—exiling five cards and turning them into suspended futures, followed by a double “time travel” nudge and then a cathartic purge of one artifact per opponent. Practically it's a value/combo engine that prefers midrange/value or combo shells and shines hardest in multiplayer/EDH: it stocks your future turns with answers and threats while III punishes artifact-heavy boards. Deckbuilding tip: populate with low–mana-value, high-impact instants and sorceries so many exiled cards carry few time counters and come back sooner, and include top-of-library manipulators (Sensei’s Divining Top, Sylvan Library, library tutors) to bias what gets suspended. Use it as a long-game setup rather than a tempo play; it’s about inevitability and recursion, not instant stabilization. In metas where artifacts are key, the final chapter turns this narrative device into real disruption, making it a strong choice as a singleton or sideboard tool.
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