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Fists of Ironwood

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaGreen mana

Two Saprolings and a trample enabler bolted onto a single Aura: the value is in the bundle, not the trample. Auras live and die by the tempo math of card disadvantage, since the enchantment and the creature it sits on are two cards that one removal spell can answer at once. This design hedges against exactly that failure. When it resolves, it produces two 1/1 green Saproling tokens that survive no matter what happens to the host, so even if the enchanted creature dies the turn it comes down, your two mana bought a pair of bodies rather than a blowout. Trample, then, is the upside rather than the point: it lets the host push damage past chump blockers, which matters most when you already have a swarm of small green tokens to clutter the board (precisely what this card just helped build). It reads as a Saproling-tribal enabler first and a combat enchantment second, a green common written for a go-wide token shell that wants both a critical mass of expendable creatures and a way to keep a fattened attacker from getting gummed up at the red zone. The friction is that it still wants a host worth enchanting; spend it on nothing and the trample line is wasted, even if the tokens never are.

Fists of Ironwood (rav)
RAV · #164common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.94
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens. Enchanted creature has trample.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
N/A
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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