Wish

For the counter of the same name, see Wish counter.

A Wish is an effect that brings one or more cards "you own from outside the game" into the game, usually into your hand. In a casual game, a card you choose from outside the game comes from your personal collection. In a tournament event, a card you choose from outside the game must come from your sideboard.

Printings

Wishes got their name from a cycle of cards in Judgment:

• Golden Wish () — enchantment or artifact
• Cunning Wish () — instant
• Death Wish () — any card; lose half of your life
• Burning Wish () — sorcery
• Living Wish () — creature or land

Following the original cycle, several wishes have been printed:

• Coax from the Blind Eternities () — Eldrazi card; may choose a face-up card in exile
• Glittering Wish () — multicolored card; shares naming with the original cycle
• Granted () — noncreature card
• Invasion of Arcavios () — instant or sorcery; may search your library and/or graveyard
• Karn, the Great Creator () — artifact card; may choose a face-up card in exile; -2 loyalty ability
• Legion Angel () — another copy of Legion Angel
• Mastermind's Acquisition () — any card; modal spell with a tutor effect as its alternate mode
• Vivien, Arkbow Ranger () — creature card; -5 loyalty ability

Other than hand

• Research () — shuffles four into library
• Ring of Ma'rûf () — replaces your next draw; printed before the original wishes
• Spawnsire of Ulamog () — Eldrazi cards; cast unlimited number for free
• The Raven's Warning () — puts on top of library; on Saga Chapter III
• Wish () — may play that turn

Non-eternal

• Collector Protector () — nonland card given to an opponent; silver-bordered
• Frontier Explorer () — basic Plains; test card
• Last Minute Chopping () — opponent-owned card into your hand; silver-bordered holiday card
• Princess Luna () — up to six cards with a moon in their art into exile; silver-bordered
  • You and players designated as your friends with your permission may cast the cards from exile.
• Sovereign's Realm — plays basic lands; Conspiracy
• Spike, Tournament Grinder () — banned card; silver-bordered
• Wizened Arbiter () — white card exchanged for a card in your hand; test card

Wishboard

A wishboard is a sideboard for a deck that is intended to be used in conjunction with wishes. Often, these sideboard cards are not intended to ever be sided into the main deck between games; rather, one of the wishes is used to retrieve the cards instead. The intent of this strategy is to not devote main deck space to cards that may be irrelevant in any particular match-up. Instead, one trades game tempo for the ability to have the correct answer every game. This is, of course, assuming that the wishboard contains the proper answers.

See also

• Learn - A form of Wish that specifically targets Lesson cards.
• Companion - A form of Wish that is for an individual card.