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Hofri Ghostforge

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Cleric3 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

Reanimation without the graveyard bottleneck: instead of retrieving one dead creature at a time, every other nontoken creature you control that dies converts immediately into a Spirit copy that keeps swinging. The exile-and-copy loop is the accounting worth understanding. When another of your nontoken creatures dies, it leaves the graveyard for exile and returns as a token with its full text intact, so enter-the-battlefield triggers and combat-relevant abilities all fire again on arrival. The token's leaves-the-battlefield rider is not a cost but a second life: when the copy eventually leaves the battlefield, the exiled original drops back into the graveyard, ready to be recurred the next time it hits play and dies, which turns a single strong body into a self-refueling value engine. The anthem stapled to the front turns those Spirit copies into hasty tramplers, so the recursion doubles as an alpha-strike enabler rather than a slow grind. What separates this from most death-matters payoffs is the direction of the payoff: it does not care about draining the table or manufacturing sacrifice fodder, it cares about the reentry value of whatever dies, favoring creatures with strong summoning triggers and blink-adjacent bodies over expendable chaff. The result is a Boros death-value engine, an unusual pairing given that red and white historically owned the aggressive and go-wide ends of the color pie rather than the recursive graveyard middle black and green traditionally held.

Hofri Ghostforge (pstx)
PSTX · #192pmythic
Pricing
Normal: $1.92
Foil: $1.61
Oracle Text

Rules text

Spirits you control get +1/+1 and have trample and haste. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types and it has "When this token leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's graveyard."
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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