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Floodbringer

Creature — Moonfolk Wizard1 generic manaBlue mana

Land destruction by attrition was always the slow half of blue's interaction kit, and this Moonfolk turns the bounce-your-own-land trick the tribe was built around into a repeatable tempo lever. The activation taps a target land, but it pays for the privilege by returning one of your own lands to hand, which means the soft-lock it threatens comes straight out of your own development. That is the catch the design hangs on: you are not destroying anyone's land, only keeping a single one tapped per turn cycle, and you are spending mana and a land-drop's worth of momentum to do it. The repeated bounce only stops being pure tempo loss when the land you replay does something on the way in, an enters-the-battlefield trigger worth re-triggering, which is the narrow seam where the Moonfolk return mechanic earned its keep rather than just costing you tempo. As a standalone, this is a 1/2 flyer asking a great deal of your sequencing for a grindy, marginal lock; as a piece built around abusing land bounce, the engine reads very differently. The flying body is what keeps the card from being a pure value sink: it puts a slow clock behind the disruption, so the lock has a way to actually close a game rather than just stall one.

Floodbringer (bok)
BOK · #34common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $5.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying 2 generic mana, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Tap target land.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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