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Dragon Scales

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaWhite mana

Most combat Auras live in fear of a single removal spell: invest two mana wrapping up a creature, then watch both halves die to one trade. This one shrugs that off by attaching its comeback to the rest of the board instead of its own host. Every time a sufficiently large creature arrives, the Aura can crawl out of the graveyard and latch onto it, which turns a top-heavy creature curve into a renewable supply of attachment targets. It is an artifact of an era fixated on expensive creatures as their own reward, where casting a giant was supposed to trigger payoffs throughout your deck. The buff itself is modest and deliberately defensive: a small toughness bump plus vigilance lets a clumsy beater swing and still guard the ground. The rate was never the point; the engine is. And the engine is only as strong as the fatties feeding it. Surround this with two-drops and the return clause is inert text stapled to a weak combat enchantment. Surround it with a curve that keeps dropping behemoths, and it becomes a resource that punishes the opponent for killing your bodies, since each new colossus simply hands the Aura somewhere fresh to live. The threshold is the whole governor on the design: it asks for a specific kind of deck and gives nothing back to any other.

Dragon Scales (scg)
SCG · #10common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.93
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+2 and has vigilance. When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.
Legalities

Format Status

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