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Hopeful Vigil

Enchantment1 generic manaWhite mana

The whole point of this design is that it never dies unused. A 2/2 vigilance body on entry, a scry 2 when it goes to the graveyard, and a built-in sacrifice ability to trigger that scry on your own clock: the card is deliberately front-loaded and back-loaded with value so that every phase of its life pays out. That's the structural answer to a problem enchantment-based tokens usually have, which is that they sit on the battlefield doing nothing once the ETB resolves. Here the enchantment itself is a resource you spend later, either by being removed (their card was worth a scry 2) or by cashing it in yourself when you'd rather dig two cards deep than hold a spent permanent. The sacrifice cost is the friction on this: it isn't free, so you can't just crack it whenever, but it turns a dead board object into card selection at a moment you choose. It also feeds anything that counts enchantments entering or leaving, and hands a body to sacrifice-fodder strategies that want a creature and a graveyard trigger from one card. The design lineage is the low-rarity value permanent that refuses to be a blank: every mode is small, but there is no window in which the card is doing nothing, and that redundancy is exactly what earns it a slot in decks that grind.

Hopeful Vigil (woe)
WOE · #17common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance. When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2. 2 generic manaWhite mana: Sacrifice this enchantment.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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