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Grisly Transformation

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaBlack mana

The whole category of evasion auras lives under one threat: spend a card to make a creature unblockable, and a single removal spell answers both halves at once. The cantrip on entry is this card's hedge against that math. Once the Aura resolves, you have already replaced the card you spent, so the buff and the body that wears it are no longer a single fragile package; kill the creature afterward and you are still even. The exception worth knowing is the response window before resolution: bolt the target while the Aura is on the stack and the spell loses its only legal target, fizzles, and goes to the graveyard without ever drawing you the card. The draw is an enter-the-battlefield trigger, not a cast trigger, so it only pays out if the Aura actually sticks. What you get for clearing that hurdle is intimidate, the color-gated successor to the older fear keyword: a black creature carrying this can only be chumped by artifacts or other black creatures, which in most boards means it connects unimpeded. That makes it a quiet enabler for any plan built on landing hits with one threat, whether the creature carries a combat-damage trigger, a saboteur effect, or just enough power to close. The design is deliberately plain. It does not stretch a rate or warp a curve; it takes the bare cheap-evasion-aura shell and bolts on the one rider that stops the archetype from bleeding cards.

Grisly Transformation (bng)
BNG · #74common
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
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
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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Other printings

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