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Inkfathom Witch

Creature — Merfolk Wizard1 generic manaBlue or Black mana

The activated ability is the whole strategic engine here, and it is narrower than it first reads: it does not pump your team or wipe the board flat, it sets base power and toughness to 4/1 only for creatures that are already unblocked. That scope is the entire design. Fear on the body is the seed, a 1/1 evader that, the turn you spend the four mana, suddenly connects for four. But because the ability touches every unblocked creature regardless of who controls it, it rewards a wide board of small evasive bodies over a single fat threat, and it punishes you for letting the opponent push attackers through. Stack a few unblockable creatures, activate, and a stalled race becomes lethal; activate into a turn where the defending side has the unblocked attackers and you have just upgraded their swing for them. That asymmetry favors only whoever is winning the unblocked count, which is why this plays nothing like a straightforward overrun. It is not asking you to go tall; it is asking you to dominate the evasion math, then cash that lead at instant speed for a number the defender cannot easily survive. The hybrid pip lets you cast the body off either blue or black, but the activation demands both, a quiet signal that this was built for the deck living squarely in both colors and playing the evasion game in earnest, not the one splashing for a 1/1.

Inkfathom Witch (ncc)
NCC · #342uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) 2 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana: Each unblocked creature has base power and toughness 4/1 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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