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Hunter's Prowess

Sorcery4 generic manaGreen mana

The five-mana price tag is doing the talking here. Green has always traded raw size for a refusal to interact, and this converts that size directly into cards: connect with the buffed creature and you draw equal to the total combat damage it dealt the player, so the bigger the swing, the deeper the refill. The cleverest target is a creature whose power already towers over its toughness, where the +3/+3 is almost incidental and the trample plus the draw clause carries the spell. But the form keeps it honest. This is a sorcery, cast on your own turn right before combat, which means it grants nothing permanent and stakes everything on a single attack step. An opponent never gets a full turn to plan around it, but the priority window you open the moment it resolves is enough to sink it: kill the creature before damage and the whole investment evaporates, and a single profitable block can strand the trample damage below what you needed to break even. That fragility is why it reads as a value spell rather than a finisher. You are not killing anyone with three extra power; you are turning an attack you were already making into a fistful of cards. The lineage runs through every green "deal combat damage, draw that many" effect that asks you to already command a board worth swinging with. This one front-loads the entire reward into one turn instead of stapling it to a permanent, which makes it explosive when it lands and worthless the instant the creature dies.

Hunter's Prowess (bng)
BNG · #124rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.48
Foil: $1.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Until end of turn, target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw that many cards."
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
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