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Galadriel, Light of Valinor

Legendary Creature — Elf Noble2 generic manaGreen manaWhite manaBlue mana

Alliance solves a design problem that has dogged multicolor go-wide payoffs for years: how do you reward a stream of creatures without either running away on the first turn it lands or asking the player to overcommit into a board wipe. The answer here is a rotation. Each creature that follows this one triggers a menu, but the same mode cannot be chosen twice in a turn, so a flood of tokens cannot simply dump out mana or stack counters into a single lethal swing; it hands you one of each per turn and no more. That ceiling is per turn, not per turn cycle: with flash creatures or instant-speed token generation, an opponent's turn refreshes the menu, so a patient builder can wring the ramp, the anthem, and the refill out of both halves of a full go-around. The constraint is what turns a potentially oppressive trigger into a paced engine, and the three modes cover the three axes a creature-based deck runs out of: mana to deploy, board size to close, cards to keep going. The 3/3 body is deliberately unremarkable in combat, because the card is not asking to attack; it wants you flickering, tokening, and returning bodies around it while it converts each arrival into a resource of your choosing. The scry stapled to the draw mode is the tell that sequencing matters: with enough creatures, you collect all three modes in a single turn, and the order you take them in shapes what you dig toward next.

Galadriel, Light of Valinor (ltc)
LTC · #498mythic
Pricing
Normal: $23.93
Foil: $22.91
Oracle Text

Rules text

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Add Green manaGreen manaGreen mana. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. • Scry 2, then draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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