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Katilda and Lier

Legendary Creature — HumanGreen manaWhite manaBlue mana

The two-name legendary creature is design shorthand for "we welded two smaller ideas together," and this pairing fuses Human tribal with graveyard spell recursion into a single trigger. The engine is quieter than it looks: casting a Human spell doesn't recast a spell for you, it hands a chosen instant or sorcery in your graveyard flashback at its own mana cost until end of turn. You still have to pay for the second cast, and you still have to have the mana up, so the payoff is closer to a Snapcaster Mage-style rebuy than a free-value loop. What separates it structurally is the exile clause baked into flashback: each spell you buy back leaves the graveyard, so the deck can't loop a single Cyclonic Rift or removal spell forever. That constraint is what keeps a three-mana body attached to a repeatable spell engine honest. The tension the design resolves is a real one for Bant, a color trio rich in card selection but historically starved for graveyard recursion. Green rummages, blue draws, white recurs creatures; instant and sorcery flashback is the seam none of the three colors covers cleanly on their own. Layering the trigger onto a tribe as wide as Humans means the enabler and the payoff share a deck naturally rather than fighting for slots, which is exactly the argument for stapling the two halves together in the first place.

Katilda and Lier (moc)
MOC · #449mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.83
Foil: $1.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a Human spell, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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