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Ainok Survivalist

Creature — Dog Shaman1 generic manaGreen mana

Naturalize, the classic green artifact-and-enchantment answer, has always had a tempo problem: drawing it against a deck with nothing to destroy leaves you holding a dead card. The megamorph framing solves that without changing the destruction at all. Played face down for three, this is a 2/2 body that does work in combat regardless of what your opponent is holding; you commit it to the board first and decide later whether the flip is worth it. When you do pay the megamorph cost, the unmorph trigger picks off an artifact or enchantment and the creature comes back up a 3/2, so the removal arrives stapled to a real threat rather than a card you cash in and forget. The cost of all that flexibility is timing: the destruction only fires on the face-up trigger, so the answer is gated behind both the three-mana down payment and the flip cost, and it cannot interrupt a one-shot artifact the way an instant could. What it buys instead is the freedom to deploy on curve and hold the removal until a target shows up, turning a reactive spell into something you can play proactively. It is a tidy demonstration of how morph can launder a narrow effect into a card that is never blank in your hand.

Ainok Survivalist (a25)
A25 · #157common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Megamorph 1 generic manaGreen mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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