Skip to content
Moxonomy

Aquatic Alchemist // Bubble Up

Creature — Elemental // Sorcery — Adventure1 generic manaBlue mana2 generic manaBlue mana

The Adventure structure is what turns two thin halves into one flexible card. Bubble Up is a sorcery that rebuys a spell from the graveyard by putting it back on top of your library, a soft recursion that leans on the deck being built around instants and sorceries in the first place. Cast it early to reload, then the creature waits in exile to be deployed later as a 1/3 that swells to a 3/3 the first time you fire off an instant or sorcery each turn. That sequencing is the whole point: the two modes are meant to be played across different turns, so the card asks a spell-heavy deck to spend a slow turn recurring value and a later one committing a body that pays off the same triggers the deck already wants to generate. The recursion clause is deliberately narrow (it only reaches instant and sorcery cards, and only sets up a single draw rather than returning the spell to hand), which keeps the front half honest as a value play rather than a repeatable engine. What holds the design together is that both halves reward the same deckbuilding decision, so neither mode is dead weight in the hand of a player who has committed to a low creature count and a stack of cheap spells.

Aquatic Alchemist // Bubble Up (woe)
WOE · #40common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. // Put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

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