A Wild West world full of the Multiverse’s most diabolical villains?
How bad could that be?
Giddy up, pardner, it’s time for Magic: The Gathering’s Outlaws Of Thunder Junction.
The set’s mechanics are a different story altogether.
How Do You Plot A Card?
Plot isa special action keywordthat appears on cards of all types.
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To plot a card, you pay its plot cost and exile that card face-up.
The card is considered ‘plotted’ at this point.
In other words,invest the mana into it now to get that spell for free later.
you’ve got the option to only pay a plot cost as a sorcery.
That is to say, during your main phase whenthe stackis empty.
Notably,you could also onlycasta plotted card as a sorcery, regardless of its card types.
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Some effects instruct you to plot a card without actually paying a plot cost.
For example, Jace Reawakened plots a card from your hand as part ofa planeswalker loyalty ability.
When Should You Plot A Card?
Plotting gives you some other distinct advantages though.
you’re free to also play around interaction by using plot abilities instead of casting your spells.
Surely they can’t counter them all!
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Keep your spell-slinging finger on the trigger in Magic: The Gathering’s Quick Draw Commander deck.
Plot cards have a definite home inCommanderas well.
Commanders like Prosper, Tome-Bound and Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald can make good use of these cards.
Plot also plays well withstorm-style decks.
Aven Interrupter
Aven Interrupter isan example of plot being used as a punishment.
This Bird Rogue can bounce a spell off the stack, plotting it instead of allowing it to resolve.
From there, its owner may recast the spell, but with an additional cost.
Interrupter also incidentally interferes with other cast-from-exile effects, which completely hoses certain strategies.
Railway Brawler
Railway Brawler can put an obscene amount of stats on the battlefield.
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