Restore Balance

Sorcery

Restore Balance is white.

Suspend 6—{W} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {W} and exile this with three time counters. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast this without paying this card's mana cost.)

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.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

capwner on Tomik 43 Lands.dec

3 months ago

^ Endless Horizons is so good, people underrate the power of making land drops. Not even to mention the thinning. Remember when Journeyer's Kite went in every deck? OK Suffer, you already know what's coming here. All these thinning cards and scroll rack are just a whole bunch of peanut butter and it needs the Timesifter jelly. THE JELLY, MAN!!!! Planar Birth is also a pet card of mine, been meaning to try brewing with this one again. Overall this mono white lands is a very sweet concept, the only thing I might consider if having trouble keeping up would be to try running a bunch more wraths. Lands+Wraths tends to be a pretty successful formula and this build has a lot of recursion already. Aura Fracture is also crazy lol I thought I was the only one running this as tech in my Restore Balance deck but it looks like you have it as straight up removal here.

capwner on Little Gruul Riding Hood

10 months ago

Hmmm, I'm not sure I understand what this deck is trying to do. I see you are trying to cascade but I don't get what the target is. If you only run 4 drops to maximize value out of your Discover 4 effects for example, running 1-3 drops wouldn't mess up this plan if your curve was still weighted towards 4. I don't see that single 3 drop or 0 drop you are trying to cascade into every time, e.g. I have a deck with no 1-2 drops that hits Restore Balance every time. Might be nice to add more of a description if you have some more complex combo stuff going on in here!

MTGBurgeoning on Linvala, Giada, & Akroma

1 year ago

Yikes. I would not feel confident adding Restore Balance to an Angel tribal deck. Our opponents will have several turns to prepare for it through its suspend mechanic. Also, our Angels are pricy to get onto the battlefield, and we are most likely playing from behind when it comes to creatures in play. Any spell that we cast that might result in losing any of our Angels may be an overall hindrance to our gameplay. Of course, there could be game-state specificities where it could be advantageous to cast Restore Balance, like if we have a slew of mana rocks in play and a fist of cards/Angels. Still, if it were me, then I would find a different option.

capwner on Linvala, Giada, & Akroma

1 year ago

MTGBurgeoning I think I was playing Restore Balance, so... poorly for the angels :P

Infatuated_Amnesiac on Get in Loser, We're Casting [Molten Psyche]

1 year ago

psionictemplar yes! There was a period where I tested Dominance to free cast Bloom or Restore Balance. Not sure where I sit on it right now... I will consider Talisman of Conviction? I need to work on the manabase and such. Thanks for the suggestion!

Azoth2099 on Sen Triplets - Esper Control (Seeking Help)

2 years ago

Iraeus

Yep! I'd cut the following:

Vega, the Watcher, Tasha, the Witch Queen, Mind's Dilation, Celestial Dawn, Lighthouse Chronologist, Restore Balance, Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, Dromar's Charm & Talent of the Telepath !

wallisface on Time is of the Essence

2 years ago

Some examples of As Foretold decks are here : example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4. You'll note that the common theme is that As Foretold is only useful for cheating out cards like Ancestral Vision, Crashing Footfalls, and Restore Balance. These decks also use stuff like Electrodominance and Finale of Promise to ensure they're able to cast those no-mana spells reliably.

I don't think there are many Oracle's Vault decks out there because the card is just bad, and requires a lot of support to even remotely do anything - on top of that it's super-slow and super-easy to disrupt. I found this deck that plays it, though the deck itself looks pretty janky, and i'm not convinced it would be any good, especially for the amount of $$$ it costs.

There won't be any decks out there that use both of those cards together, as they're both trying to achieve very different goals (and on top of that Oracle's Vault isn't really very playable).

r0Wn on Suspension of Disbelief

3 years ago

I like the idea. I realize it’s not the direction you’re going, but I’ve always liked Ancestral Vision and Restore Balance if you decided to go more of a control direction