Restore Balance
Time Spiral 38 • rare
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Collector number
- 38
- Rarity
- Rare
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Mark Poole
- Market price
- $1.01
What it does
Suspend 6—white mana
Each player chooses a number of lands they control equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players sacrifice creatures and discard cards the same way.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Restore Balance was released in 2006 as part of the Time Spiral expansion, a set centered on themes of nostalgia and the manipulation of Magic: The Gathering’s past. As a card that functions as a functional reprint of the original Balance—an infamously powerful card from the game's earliest years—it was designed to provide a suspended, delayed version of a classic effect. The card was part of a cycle of 'suspend' cards that paid homage to iconic spells from the 1990s, allowing the game's mechanics to explore how older, broken effects might operate under more restrictive temporal constraints.
The artwork for Restore Balance was illustrated by Aleksi Briclot. His design leans into the set's surreal, time-warped aesthetic, utilizing a soft, ethereal color palette to represent the resetting of the game state. When it debuted, the card was received as a fascinating design experiment, quickly becoming a staple for combo players who sought to manipulate its suspend timing to achieve a lopsided advantage on the battlefield, reflecting the complex, layered history that Time Spiral was intended to evoke.
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