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Broken Wings

Instant2 generic manaGreen mana

Green's answer to the things it historically cannot touch, bundled into a single instant. For most of its history, green got hard removal only against artifacts, enchantments, and fliers: the colors of magic it was built to distrust, plus the sky it could not otherwise reach. Naturalize-style effects handled the noncreature half; a Plummet or Clip Wings handled the airborne half. This folds all three targets into one card, so a single slot in the deck covers whatever the matchup presents. The tradeoff is the reach: it destroys a creature only if that creature has flying, which means a grounded threat walks past it untouched. That restriction is the whole reason the flexibility is allowed. A green card that could kill any creature at instant speed would break the color pie; a green card that kills any flying creature stays inside green's mandate to answer what it structurally fears. The instant speed matters more than the modality here: it lets you hold up an answer through a combat step and blow out an attacker mid-swing, or catch the enchantment before its controller can profit from it. Plain, honest utility of exactly the sort green is permitted to have, and no more.

Broken Wings (cmm)
CMM · #277common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

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