Impulse
Mana cost {1}{U}.
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Impulse is a blue card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Visions printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1.73) · TCGplayer ($1.38) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €1.52 and €2.31 in that time.
How often Impulse is played
Impulse is maindecked in 11 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (8%), averaging 3.5 copies; used by 6 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 48 decks that can cast blue cards, 11 of them play it (23%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Impulse
- Stiflenought (2x)
- Landstill: Digs four cards deep at instant speed for the land, sweeper or counter the turn needs. Casting it breaks your own Standstill, so use it at the end of the opponent's turn before Standstill is down, or once Standstill is gone.
- Stasis (4x)
- Psychatog (3x)
- Tron: In all but one list, almost always four copies: two mana at instant speed to look at the top four cards and take one. Early it looks for the missing Urza land or a colored source, later for a counter or Decree of Justice; a specific missing Urza land is among the four cards only about three times in ten.
- Dromar Control (4x)
Tournament decks with Impulse
- Rebels: 2nd Place at Premodern Bilbao 2026 (4× mainboard)
- 4c Blessing Control: 5th Place at Midwest Championship Ope (4× mainboard)
- Mono Blue Control: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (4× mainboard)
- UWB Control: 5th Place at Premodern MTGO Challenge (4× mainboard)
- Mono Blue Control: 1st Place at MTGO Challenge (4× mainboard)
- Rector Decree: 3rd Place at Fight Club - Monthly #7 (4× mainboard)
- UW Landstill: 1st Place at New England Summer Regional (4× mainboard)
- Dromar Control: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá (3× mainboard)
- Dromar Solution: 3rd Place at Side Event Final Pudraiser (2× mainboard)
- UW Control: 1st Place at Moxforge League May 2026 (4× mainboard)
- The Solution: 2nd Place at Monthly Italiano Maggio (2× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Impulse
- Pirates (1×)
- Chronatog Stax (4×)
- 4c Blessing Control (4×)
- Counter Sliver (4×)
- Darwin's Dead (3×)
