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Moxonomy

Genju of the Realm

Legendary Enchantment — AuraWhite manaBlue manaBlack manaRed manaGreen mana

The capstone of the cycle, and the one that breaks the cycle's own rules. Every other Genju enchants a basic and turns its host into a modest creature for a single mana of the matching color; this one demands all five colors up front, then transforms its land into an 8/12 trampler for two generic mana a turn. The asymmetry is the point: the smaller Genju are budget recursion engines for mono-colored decks, while this is a five-color statement only a deck already paying the WUBRG tax can field. What it shares with its cousins is resilience. Destroy the animated land and the Aura crawls back from your graveyard to be cast again, so killing the body accomplishes nothing lasting. The wrinkle is the precise shape of that recursion: the rebuy triggers only when the land itself is put into a graveyard, which means conventional enchantment removal (Disenchant, Naturalize, anything that destroys the Aura directly) is a perfectly clean answer that never feeds the loop. Trample is what keeps the body a real clock rather than a beatstick chump-blocked all day: a defender needs to muster twelve toughness in front of it or watch the overflow spill through, and the 12 on the back end shrugs off combat math and most burn aimed at the body. It is a slow, mana-hungry top-end built less for tempo than for refusing to die to anything that destroys the land instead of the Aura.

Genju of the Realm (bok)
BOK · #151rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.03
Foil: $23.00
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant land 2 generic mana: Enchanted land becomes a legendary 8/12 Spirit creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. When enchanted land is put into a graveyard, you may return Genju of the Realm from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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