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Cultivator of Blades

Creature — Elf Artificer3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The fabricate keyword exists precisely to resolve a decision this card stages perfectly: build tall or build wide, and let the second ability cash whichever choice you made. Take the two counters and you have a 3/3 whose attack trigger pumps the rest of your team by three; spawn the two Servos instead and the body stays a 1/1, but you have widened the board the same trigger then multiplies. The wrinkle is that the anthem scales off this creature's own power, so the two modes are not interchangeable: counters make the lord hit harder, tokens make the lord hit for almost nothing while filling the lanes it boosts. That tension is the entire design. A go-wide deck wants the Servos to swell an army; a go-tall deck wants the counters to turn a single swing lethal, and the card refuses to be optimal at both at once. It rewards reading the board state at the moment it enters rather than at the moment you draft your strategy, because the right fabricate split depends on what is already attacking alongside it. As a token-producing attack-pump lord it lands in a long tradition of green creatures that turn a flooded board into a finishing blow, but most of those commit to one axis; this one hands you the lever and makes you pull it before you know exactly how the turn will play out.

Cultivator of Blades (pkld)
PKLD · #151srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may have other attacking creatures get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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