Fleeting Distraction
Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning 60 • common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning
- Collector number
- 60
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Ryan Yee
- Market price
- $0.08
What it does
Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
Draw a card.
The first spell taught to young mages, it has spared the lives of many whose hands are too small to hold a sword.
Where you can play it
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Fleeting Distraction was originally printed in the 2014 Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning release, a product designed to explore the strategic tension between aggressive haste-based creatures and reactive, tactical deception. This set was crafted by Wizards of the Coast to offer players a pre-constructed experience that highlighted two distinct playstyles, using a mechanical rivalry to showcase the game's depth.
The card’s illustration, created by artist Clint Cearley, depicts the magical essence of a sudden, disorienting disruption. Cearley employed a high-contrast style typical of the era to emphasize the theme of evasion, fitting the card's mechanical function of tapping a creature and drawing a card. Within the community, the card is recognized as a quintessential utility spell, praised for its efficient role in limited formats and its contribution to the set's overall focus on tempo manipulation.
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