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Archdruid's Charm

InstantGreen manaGreen manaGreen mana

The whole point of a modal card is that each mode covers a matchup the others cannot, and this one is unusually clean about it: ramp-and-fetch for the ground you cannot beat on the ground, a one-way bite for creatures you can, and hard artifact-enchantment removal for the permanents green normally has to route around. That third mode is the tell. Green's traditional answer to an artifact or enchantment has always been a Naturalize-style destruction spell, which enchantments have learned to shrug off with indestructibility or recursion; exile is the color's structural weakness patched at instant speed, in a slot that also happens to fix your mana or grow a threat. The triple-green cost is what pays for the flexibility: this is not a splash, it is a card that demands you commit to green as your primary color, and in exchange it collapses three different green cards into one. The second mode deserves attention too, because it stacks the counter before the damage, so a 2/2 with the counter deals three, not two: the pump feeds the bite in the same resolution, and because only your creature deals damage, you keep the growth without taking a swing back. What holds it together is that no single mode is a bomb; the value is entirely in never drawing the wrong half of a two-card answer.

Archdruid's Charm (pmkm)
PMKM · #151prare
Pricing
Normal: $8.07
Foil: $8.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. • Exile target artifact or enchantment.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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