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Izzet Guildmage

Creature — Human WizardBlue or Red manaBlue or Red mana

The hybrid pip is the engineering trick on the body: the two-drop costs nothing in fixing, so a single Wizard can live in a mono-blue list, a mono-red list, or any spells-deck between them, paying its casting cost out of whatever the manabase already produces. The activated abilities are the real product, and they are throttled at both ends. The split is by spell type, not by color: the blue activation copies an instant, the red one copies a sorcery, regardless of which colors those spells are. That means the 2 generic manaBlue mana mode can double a red instant and the 2 generic manaRed mana mode can double a blue sorcery, with the timing of each ability following its target's window. The instant-copy can fire on an opponent's turn to ambush or duplicate a fetched reaction; the sorcery-copy is welded to your own main phase to double a ritual or a one-sided sweeper. The mana-value-two-or-less cap keeps the engine pointed at cheap cantrips and burn rather than the expensive spells that would break it, and each activation costs more than the spell it copies, so the doubling is a tempo investment, not a free ride. New targets are what turn a doubled removal spell into a two-for-one, rewarding a critical mass of small spells over any single haymaker. The dual-mode, value-capped copy effect on a fragile body remains a tidy statement of what these two colors were built to do together.

Izzet Guildmage (rvr)
RVR · #191uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Blue or Red mana can be paid with either Blue mana or Red mana.) 2 generic manaBlue mana: Copy target instant spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy. 2 generic manaRed mana: Copy target sorcery spell you control with mana value 2 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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