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Embodiment of Spring

Creature — ElementalBlue mana

A blue creature that fetches a basic land is the card's whole oddity: the body costs a single blue mana, but the sacrifice ability demands green to activate, splitting the cost across two colors of a wedge that wants exactly that kind of bridge. This is fixing dressed as a blocker. The 0/3 frame does the early work, sitting in front of an aggressive curve while you hold up the green you need to crack it later, and the tapped land it finds is the tax that keeps a one-mana ramp-and-fix from being free. Functionally it belongs alongside creatures like Sakura-Tribe Elder and Wood Elves that turn a body into land, but where those live in green and ramp toward a payoff, this one is built for a manabase that needs to reach a third or fourth color and is willing to spend a creature and two turns to get there. The split-color activation is the deliberate constraint: it only makes sense in a deck already playing both blue and green, which is precisely the deck that has trouble assembling its colors on time. A patient piece of fixing for grindy multicolor decks, and nothing more pretending to be more.

Embodiment of Spring (ktk)
KTK · #39common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.49
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic manaGreen mana, Tap, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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