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Gorion, Wise Mentor

Legendary Creature — Human WizardGreen manaWhite manaBlue mana

The Adventure mechanic is built around deferral: you cast the spell half, the creature ducks into exile, and you cash the second cast when you're ready. This turns that deferral into a doubling engine. Every Adventure spell you cast gets copied, and because the copy can pick new targets, a removal-flavored Adventure hits two things, a burn-flavored one splits its damage across two bodies, a card-draw Adventure refills twice over. The rules structure does precise work here: the copy is only the spell half, so it resolves and evaporates while the original creature still waits in exile for its later cast. You collect the payoff twice and keep the body for a second life. The optionality ("you may copy it") is a quiet safety valve, since a copy that would fizzle or land somewhere unwanted is one you can decline. The Bant color identity earns each color: green and white carry the creature-centric Adventure themes, blue supplies the copy magic that binds the whole thing together, and the result is a card whose deckbuilding brief points at Adventure spells before you've drawn a card. The 3/4 with vigilance is a fort, not a race: a body that survives combat and holds the ground while the engine hums, rather than a threat you're scrambling to protect.

Gorion, Wise Mentor (clb)
CLB · #276rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance Whenever you cast an Adventure spell, you may copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Printings elsewhere

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