Skip to content
Moxonomy

Barkshell Blessing

InstantGreen or White mana

Conspire makes this a pump spell whose ceiling scales with board width instead of mana spent. The base mode is a single hybrid pip for +2/+2, castable from either green or white without the second color in play. The interesting decision sits on the copy: tap two creatures matching the spell's color and you get a second +2/+2 with a free choice of target, letting you buff an attacker and the blocker behind it together, or split the growth across two threats in a single swing. None of that costs extra mana, which is the trap; the price is paid in bodies. The two creatures you tap to conspire can't attack or use tap abilities while committed, so the second buff can buy reach by subtracting from the board it is meant to support. Timing sharpens the dilemma. Fire it before attackers are declared and you telegraph the trick while keeping the tapped pair committed; hold it for the block step and you preserve the ambush but lock those creatures out of attacking in the same fight. The card wants a dense go-wide green-white shell, the kind of deck that can spare two taps without missing the absent attackers, which is precisely the deck that already wants a one-mana combat trick. It is small by design, paying out exactly as much as your board can afford to fund.

Barkshell Blessing (shm)
SHM · #224common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.59
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Quick navigation
move selectesc close