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Kin-Tree Severance

Instant2 generic or White mana2 generic or Black mana2 generic or Green mana

Unconditional exile at instant speed is white-black's premium removal category, the kind of effect that used to demand a rigid color commitment and a rate to match. What this design does is loosen the commitment: paying with Abzan pips gets it as cheap as three mana across three colors, while a deck that can only reliably produce two of the three color requirements can still hardcast it by covering the shortfall in generic. It answers almost anything at or above the value floor: a creature, a planeswalker, an artifact, an enchantment, a battle, so long as it registers a mana value of three or greater. That floor is doing the real balancing work. It slides off Llanowar Elves, off a turn-one Ragavan, off the cheap disruptive threats a broad exile spell would otherwise erase for value, and it cannot touch a utility land at all, since lands sit at mana value zero. The result resolves the old Abzan problem of splashing removal that hits everything: rather than demanding perfect fixing, it meets a two-color manabase halfway and charges the difference, trading a fixed color cost for a floating one that scales to whatever your board can actually produce.

Kin-Tree Severance (tdm)
TDM · #200uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Exile target permanent with mana value 3 or greater.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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