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Glittermonger

Creature — Elf Rogue3 generic manaGreen mana

Green's mana creatures usually come attached to a body that dies to a stiff breeze, spends its life tapped, and offers nothing on defense. This one inverts the ratio. The 1/4 frame survives combat and holds the ground against early aggression, and because the tap ability fires at instant speed, it never forces a choice between blocking and accelerating: leave it back, declare it as a blocker, and crack off a Treasure before damage, or simply tap it during the opponent's end step. The Treasure is the wrinkle that changes its economics. A plain mana dork adds mana only on the turn you tap it and wastes the value when you have nothing to spend it on; a Treasure banks. String together a few quiet turns and you have stockpiled fixing and a burst of acceleration you can unleash all at once, plus a growing pile of artifacts for anything that counts permanents or wants to sacrifice them. The price of that flexibility is speed: four mana with a summoning-sick first activation makes it a slow engine rather than an explosive one, a creature that compounds over a long game. It answers the durable-ramp question in green's own colors: how do you accelerate without conceding the board, and how do you convert surplus taps into stored value instead of wasted activations.

Glittermonger (snc)
SNC · #149common
Pricing
Normal: $2.31
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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