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Golden Ratio

Sorcery1 generic manaGreen manaBlue mana

The wrinkle that separates this from every other "draw cards for your board" payoff is the word different. Most token-and-go-wide draw engines scale with creature count, which is why they reward flooding the battlefield with identical bodies. This one inverts the incentive: five copies of a 2/2 draw exactly one card, while five creatures with five distinct power values draw five. The card asks for a diverse board rather than a numerous one, which quietly steers deckbuilding toward variety (mana dorks at power one, midrange threats at three and four, a big finisher at the top) instead of the token swarm that most green-blue draw spells feed. That constraint is also what keeps the effect from being a blowout on turn three: an early board is usually a couple of small creatures, so the payoff lands late, once you've assembled a curve of differently-sized threats. It rewards the kind of board a creature-toolbox deck naturally builds anyway, and punishes the anthem-and-copies plan that would otherwise break it. The counting is unusual enough to reward attention: pumping one creature the turn you cast this can turn a duplicate power into a unique one and net an extra card, a small combat-math puzzle sitting on top of a sorcery-speed refuel.

Golden Ratio (stx)
STX · #190uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Draw a card for each different power among creatures you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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