Breakthrough
The List TOR-26 • uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- TOR-26
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- X mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Gary Ruddell
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.
The ideas came flooding in so fast that they couldn't all be contained.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Breakthrough originally appeared as a blue sorcery in the Odyssey expansion of Magic: The Gathering, released in 2001. It was designed to support the set's graveyard-focused mechanics, allowing players to filter their hand by discarding cards to draw a new set, which provided essential utility for strategies revolving around flashback and threshold abilities.
The card was illustrated by Gary Ruddell, whose atmospheric style often leaned into surrealist and ethereal themes. For this piece, Ruddell created a visual representation of a sudden, lucid realization or mental breakthrough, characterized by his signature painterly texture and cool color palette, which helped solidify the card's identity within the blue color philosophy of knowledge and psychological depth.
As part of The List, this reprint maintains the original Odyssey-era artwork and mechanical identity. The List is a curated selection of cards from throughout the game's history that appear in Set Boosters, allowing players to encounter classic utility spells that might otherwise remain confined to older formats.
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About Breakthrough
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