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Gift of Paradise

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaGreen mana

This is the version of land-fixing aura that pays you twice: once for the mana it produces, once for the life it restores. Enchanting a land with a mana doubler is an old idea, going back to Wild Growth and its kin, but the structural choice here is that the land taps for two mana of a single chosen color rather than one mana of the land's own type. That converts an untapped basic into a small monolith, fixing color and ramping in the same activation, which is exactly what a midrange green deck wants when it is splashing a second or third color. The three life on entry is the part that explains why this design exists rather than a leaner two-mana ramp aura: the life buffer makes the tempo loss palatable against aggression, turning a card that would otherwise be too slow into one that buys a turn while it sets up the next. The tradeoff is the aura's cardinal sin, the same one every land enchantment carries: destroy or sacrifice the enchanted land, whether by a targeted spell or a fetch effect, and you have spent two cards to the opponent's one. That fragility is why this slots into decks that prize fixing and stability over efficiency, where the life gain and the color-smoothing together justify the risk of strapping value to a permanent the opponent can answer.

Gift of Paradise (akh)
AKH · #167common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant land When this Aura enters, you gain 3 life. Enchanted land has "Tap: Add two mana of any one color."
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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