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Bronzehide Lion

Creature — CatGreen manaWhite mana

Kill it once and it doesn't go away: it comes back grafted onto another body. That reincarnation is the design's whole trick, and the clever part is that the returned Aura carries the exact same activated ability as the creature side. Pay two mana, shrug off destruction and lethal damage, whether the Lion is a beater or an enchantment stapled to your best remaining creature. The death trigger rewards a developed board, since the Aura needs a host worth protecting; as a lone threat, the rebirth is anticlimactic, but across a full battlefield it turns a survivor into something that walks off wraths and blocks all day. The whole card folds two of green-white's oldest instincts, a resilient aggressive body and a repeatable protection spell, into a single two-drop without asking for a second card to do the second job. The limits are worth naming plainly, because indestructible only answers destruction and damage: exile, bounce, sacrifice effects, and minus-toughness still take the Lion (or its Aura) cleanly, and the reborn Aura trades away the ability to attack. What you get is a compact study in how to make a cheap creature survive removal twice while still costing exactly what a 3/3 should.

Bronzehide Lion (thb)
THB · #210rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.41
Foil: $0.46
Oracle Text

Rules text

Green manaWhite mana: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield. It's an Aura enchantment with enchant creature you control and "Green manaWhite mana: Enchanted creature gains indestructible until end of turn," and it loses all other abilities.
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

Other printings

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