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Dog Umbra

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaWhite mana

Umbra armor was always a one-sided contract: gift a creature you control a free save from destruction, spending the Aura to do it. This one reverses the terms depending on whose creature it lands on. Enchant your own attacker and it reads like the totem armor Auras before it, a destruction shield that trades itself to keep the body alive. Enchant an opponent's creature and the umbra armor clause switches off (that clause is conditional on you being the controller), leaving a Pacifism that stops the creature from attacking or blocking but grants no protection at all. That conditional flip is the whole design: one card that is a protective aura or a lockdown depending on the target, and it flips based purely on control, so a creature that changes hands changes function mid-game. Flash is what makes the disabling half genuinely playable as removal-adjacent tech. You can hold it up and shut down a would-be attacker before combat, landing it in response to whatever threat demands an answer, rather than committing on your own main phase to blank a combat step in advance. It is a compact expression of an old idea (the two-mode Aura whose function turns on control) built atop a keyword that players almost only ever saw pointed at their own creatures, now weaponized to point the other way.

Dog Umbra (mh3)
MH3 · #22common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Enchant creature As long as another player controls enchanted creature, it can't attack or block. Otherwise, this Aura has umbra armor. (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
Legalities

Format Status

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