Vision, Spectral Synthezoid

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Vision is an 8-mana 2/5 flying legendary that lets you cast one free noncreature or Robot spell per turn from hand — a powerful cost-reduction engine for spellslinger and artifact/Robot typal shells, but extremely slow to deploy at 8 cmc. Signature in spell-heavy and Robot/construct-typal builds where it can chain into massive free spells each turn. In broader play, the steep cost and {U}{U}{U}{U} pip-heaviness limit it to dedicated blue decks willing to ramp to 8.

• Vision's free-spell ability covers noncreature spells broadly (instants, sorceries, artifacts, enchantments) AND Robots specifically, making it a dual-purpose engine for both spellslinger and Robot typal decks — not just one or the other.

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• At 8 mana with double-blue pips, Vision is rarely castable before turn 6-7 even in ramp builds, meaning it functions more as a late-game value engine than a mid-game accelerant; decks that include it should have a plan to protect it over multiple turns.

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• Robot is a creature subtype introduced in Marvel-related sets; it overlaps with but is not identical to Construct — not all Constructs are Robots and vice versa, so Vision's synergy tag applies to the Robot tribe specifically.

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• EDHREC rank: #26,998