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Baffling End

Enchantment1 generic manaWhite mana

Cheap white exile that hands the price back when the enchantment dies: the 3/3 trampling Dinosaur is the tax for stapling Banishing Light's permanence onto an effect that only costs two mana. The leaves-the-battlefield clause matters more than it looks. Disenchant-style removal, sacrifice value, even bouncing your own enchantment to re-trigger it all carry a downstream cost, which keeps an answer this efficient from being a free trade. The target restriction is the other half of the design: capping exile at mana value 3 or less means it cleanly answers the early curve (mana dorks, two-drop beaters, small threats) while letting the bigger payoffs walk past, so it reads as a tempo tool rather than a catch-all. The Dinosaur token is chosen with intent too. A 3/3 with trample is meaningful without being decisive: it closes a stalled board only slightly faster than the creature you exiled would have, so the refund pressures you without punishing you. It is a tidy expression of conditional removal where the answer carries its own eventual refund, asking you to win before the bill comes due.

Baffling End (plst)
PLST · #RIX-1uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.
Legalities

Format Status

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