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Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief

Legendary Creature — Faerie RogueGreen manaBlue mana

A triggered ability that reads every single-target creature spell at the table and offers to make a second copy aimed at Ivy herself. The trigger is written to the narrowest possible spell shape: it wants exactly one creature target, never Ivy, and the copy always redirects to her. That mandatory redirect is what shapes the card and what keeps it honest. Copying an opponent's removal would just kill your own flier, so the ability rewards buffs and blessings far more than it steals kills. A Giant Growth cast directly on Ivy resolves normally but never fires her ability (she cannot be the sole target for it to trigger), but the same pump aimed at another one of your attackers copies onto her for free, and an Aura headed anywhere on your board resolves as a token attached to a 2/1 flier. Where it bends a game is in shared-enhancement play: every friendly combat trick and Aura the deck contains can be mirrored onto one evasive body, letting her snowball off spells that were never pointed at her in the first place. The Aura clause is doing quiet rules work, spelling out that a copied Aura spell resolves as a token rather than as a permanent entering play from the stack. Redirection built as a reward for stacking targeted enhancement, provided the enhancement is landing on a creature that is not Ivy.

Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief (pdmu)
PDMU · #201srare
Pricing
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Foil: $1.92
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell that targets only a single creature other than Ivy, you may copy that spell. The copy targets Ivy. (A copy of an Aura spell becomes a token.)
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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