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Deceit

Creature — Elemental Incarnation4 generic manaBlue or Black manaBlue or Black mana

The hybrid pips are not flexibility here; they are the whole ballot. The two enters triggers each key off a specific colored payment: two blue pips bounce a nonland permanent, two black pips strip a card from an opponent's hand. Cast it split, one of each, and you fund neither condition, keeping only a 5/5 body to fill the curve. But the six-mana cost hides four generic, so a player who pays 2 generic manaBlue manaBlue manaBlack manaBlack mana satisfies both conditions and puts both triggers on the stack: the card scales its payout to how much color you can pour into it, from a plain beater to a two-for-one that bounces and discards as the triggers resolve. Evoke sharpens the calculus from the other end: pay the alternative cost with two matching pips and you keep the relevant enters trigger while surrendering the body entirely, turning a top-heavy creature into a cheap disruption spell that a graveyard-recursion shell can rebuy. That evoke line runs at sorcery speed, so it is a proactive tempo or hand-attack play, not a reactive one. This is the Incarnation lineage: a fat evoke creature is really a spell wearing a body, and the twist here is that the spell it wears bends with which half of the guild you feed it. One slot, several shapes: removal-on-a-stick, targeted discard, both at once, or a beater, priced so the amount of colored mana you commit is the amount of value you get back.

Deceit (ecl)
ECL · #293mythic
Pricing
Normal: $7.36
Foil: $13.74
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, if Blue manaBlue mana was spent to cast it, return up to one other target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, if Black manaBlack mana was spent to cast it, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Evoke Blue or Black manaBlue or Black mana
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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