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Boon Satyr

Enchantment Creature — Satyr1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Flash and bestow together solve a problem aggressive green almost never gets to solve: how to keep mana up without committing the turn. Hold it as a flash 4/2 to ambush an attacker, and you have spent reactive mana on a body. Hold it and no threat appears, and the same card becomes a +4/+2 aura at the end of an opponent's turn or in response to removal, so the mana was never stranded. That double-billing is what the two keywords buy you. Bestow gives the spell a resilience a normal creature lacks: stapled to something you already control, it survives a board wipe by leaving the Satyr behind when the host dies, peeling back into a standalone 4/2 rather than dying with it. Flash lets it arrive on the turn you choose instead of the predictable one. The 4/2 body is the price of all that optionality, a glass cannon that trades poorly and dies to almost anything, which is precisely why the aura mode matters: the +4/+2 threatens lethal while sidestepping the fragility, and removal aimed at the enchanted creature returns a creature instead of granting a clean two-for-one. It reads as a midrange value piece but plays as a tempo trap, and the tension between those modes (which one you commit to, and when) is the decision the card keeps asking of you.

Boon Satyr (ths)
THS · #152rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.73
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Bestow 3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) Enchanted creature gets +4/+2.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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