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Auramancer's Guise

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The premise is recursive: an Aura whose payoff scales with how many other Auras share its host. On a bare creature it reads as a modest +2/+2 with vigilance, but every additional enchantment compounds the bonus, so the card is built to reward the exact strategy most decks avoid (stacking permanents on a single body). That is the design tension and the joke at once: blue, the color most allergic to committing to the board, gets the engine that turns an Aura pile into a problem. The vigilance is the quiet glue, letting the over-enchanted attacker swing without surrendering the defense that an Aura-heavy creature desperately needs. The scaling counts itself, too: the Guise is an Aura, so it contributes to its own multiplier the moment it lands. The structural risk is the same one every Aura archetype carries, that a single removal spell undoes the whole tower in one card, and here the downside is magnified because the creature is doing the work of three or four cards at once. Among the "voltron in a single slot" enchantments that try to make Aura saturation a reward rather than a liability, this one answers the problem with multiplication rather than protection, trusting the deck around it to supply the second part.

Auramancer's Guise (plc)
PLC · #34uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.64
Foil: $4.65
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it and has vigilance.
Legalities

Format Status

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