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Dega Sanctuary

Enchantment2 generic manaWhite mana

White paying you to splash its two traditional enemies is the whole joke here, and the upkeep trigger is built to escalate the bribe: one off-color permanent earns a small tick, both halves of the white-black-red wedge double it. That tiering is a deckbuilding nudge dressed as a payoff, rewarding commitment to colors white spent most of its history opposing rather than allying with. As a card it sits at the floor of lifegain enchantments: passive, conditional on a board you would already want, and parked there contributing nothing but a counting clause every upkeep. The effect is forgettable. The intent is not. This is the white anchor of a three-enchantment cycle, each keyed to a different enemy wedge, and the set of trigger-loyalty rewards is a clean artifact of an era when design pushed players toward color combinations they had been trained to avoid. The thematic project shows through more clearly than the lifegain ever does: an early-era attempt to sell a color philosophy through commons and uncommons, with the gain itself little more than the wrapper.

Dega Sanctuary (apc)
APC · #5uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $1.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a black or red permanent, you gain 2 life. If you control a black permanent and a red permanent, you gain 4 life instead.
Legalities

Format Status

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