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Howl of the Night Pack

Sorcery6 generic manaGreen mana

Pay the seven mana and you get back a number, not a board: the payout scales entirely with how many Forests you control, which makes the spell a referendum on your manabase rather than a fixed threat. In a deck running a dozen basic Forests, that is a small army of 2/2 Wolves arriving in one shot, the kind of swing that ends games on its own. In a two- or three-color build leaning on duals and fixing, the same card might net three or four bodies, a rate that embarrasses itself. That conditionality is the entire design: the spell pays out heaviest to the green decks most committed to green, the ones whose lands all carry the Forest subtype, and offers nothing to the ones hedging their colors. It is a token-generator built as an incentive structure, rewarding mono-green flood-the-board strategies that have the fewest reasons to splash. The width also holds up where a single fatty does not: spot removal answers one threat and leaves the rest of the horde swinging, and the Wolves soak up equipment, anthems, and sacrifice value far better than any lone seven-drop could. Green has no shortage of ways to make one enormous creature for a lot of mana; this is the rare one that converts a Forest-heavy commitment into raw board presence, and the count of Wolves staring back is a direct readout of how honest your land base has been.

Howl of the Night Pack (shm)
SHM · #119uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $3.94
Oracle Text

Rules text

Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token for each Forest you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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