Reality Strobe
Future Sight 43 • uncommon
- Set
- Future Sight
- Collector number
- 43
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Market price
- $0.93
What it does
Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Exile Reality Strobe with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—2 generic mana blue mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 2 generic mana blue mana and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Reality Strobe was released in 2007 as part of the Future Sight expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. The set is renowned for its experimental design philosophy, which explored potential futures for the game’s mechanics through unconventional frames and time-shifted cards. As a blue sorcery, the card reflects the set's focus on recursive effects and temporal manipulation, designed to provide long-term utility by returning itself to the player's hand after resolving.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Christopher Moeller, who captured the set's surreal, futuristic aesthetic through a high-contrast, atmospheric depiction of shimmering energy. Within the competitive landscape, Reality Strobe is recognized for its role in slow-paced control decks, where its ability to repeatedly interact with the board state was intended to test the limits of card advantage and delay mechanics in the game's evolving environment.
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