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Forbidden Friendship

Sorcery1 generic manaRed mana

Two bodies for two mana, split across two token types, and that split is the entire reason the card exists. Aggressive red decks have always wanted early bodies to press damage; wide-token strategies have always wanted bodies of a specific creature type to feed their payoffs. This design serves both at once, which is exactly what makes it awkward to slot into either. The Dinosaur arrives with haste, so one of the two tokens hits immediately, while the Human Soldier sits back as a chump or a go-wide unit. Neither token has stats worth writing home about, so the card is really about count and typing: it is fuel, not threat. The genre it belongs to is the token doubler's cheapest friend, the one-card, two-permanents rate that feeds anything counting bodies, triggering on creatures entering, or sacrificing at a discount. Its closest structural cousins are the multi-token sorceries that hand you a pile of small creatures for a small price; the wrinkle here is the deliberate tribal split, giving Dinosaur-matters and Human-matters shells a single card that touches both. That dual-tribe hedge is also its ceiling: a deck built hard around one type gets only half the payoff, so it lands where breadth beats depth, in decks that care about creatures as a resource rather than as members of a club.

Forbidden Friendship (iko)
IKO · #367common
Pricing
Normal: $0.41
Foil: $0.47
Oracle Text

Rules text

Create a 1/1 red Dinosaur creature token with haste and a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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