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
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)

MTGBurgeoning on Linvala, Giada, & Akroma

2 months 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

2 months 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]

11 months 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)

1 year 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

1 year 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

2 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

zapyourtumor on Suspension of Disbelief

2 years ago

Tibalt's Trickery isn't legal because of the 4x Violent Outburst + 1x Tibalt's Trickery + 4x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn deck.

About the deck, it seems to be a little unfocused. Although Shivan Meteor is a suspend card, it isn't that good unless you're hitting your own Boros Reckoner with it. Similarly, Reckoner doesn't have much synergy with the rest of the deck either.

Also, I definitely think it would be nice if you could work in a few more "unfair" elements of suspend to the deck, as opposed to using suspend to turn a Rift Bolt into a bolt or a Gargadon into a goyf. One nice unfair suspend interaction is the Greater Gargadon + Restore Balance combo for example. And then there's all the ways to cheat in suspend cards like Electrodominance, Kari Zev's Expertise, cascade cards, etc.

In this deck, Fury Charm doesn't seem that great. Only the destroy artifact mode is any good, and then its just a worse Smelt. I don't think I need to explain why the second mode isn't great, and the third mode turns Gargadon from "1R, wait 4 turns" into "2RR, wait 2 turns and also go down on card advantage". The reusable time counter removers are way better.

Also unsure about 4 maindeck Spellskite, especially given that I think you want to be dropping a timebug or suspending a gargadon on t2. Seems more like a sideboard card.

For the sideboard, I don't think you need 4 Needles.

king-saproling on The Lesson Plan

3 years ago

Oh also these: Deploy to the Front , Ezuri's Predation , Insurrection , Ancestral Vision , Restore Balance , Crashing Footfalls , Evermind