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Battlewand Oak

Creature — Treefolk Warrior2 generic manaGreen mana

Two triggers, one growth engine, and a 1/3 base that exists to survive long enough for the deck to assemble around it. Both payoffs ask for the same two ingredients: pack the deck with Forests and Treefolk and the bonuses stack inside a single turn. Each Forest that enters the battlefield is +2/+2, each Treefolk spell you cast is another +2/+2, and because the triggers are independent they compound rather than overwrite. A turn that resolves a fetched basic and a couple of Treefolk can leave a 7/9 or larger swinging out of nowhere, which is the whole pitch: a creature that converts the routine acts of a green Treefolk deck (dropping lands, casting your own kind) into combat damage. The catch is that all of it expires at end of turn, so the card rewards a build that empties its hand in bursts rather than dribbling threats out one at a time. This belongs to a strain of tribal anchors that demand critical mass to do anything: read in isolation it scans as a defensive filler creature, but a deck that respects both conditions turns it into the reason the curve detonates rather than trickles. Outside that shell it is a 1/3 that blocks; inside it, it is what makes a green Treefolk deck close in a flurry.

Battlewand Oak (plst)
PLST · #LRW-197common
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Normal: $0.17
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever a Forest you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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