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Knotvine Mystic

Creature — Elf DruidRed manaGreen manaWhite mana

The shard it belongs to is the whole reason it exists: a mana creature that produces exactly the three colors of a Naya deck (red, green, and white, a color and its two allies), no more and no less, in a single tap. The activation cost of one generic mana plus the tap is the wrinkle that separates it from a plain Llanowar Elves dork. You spend a mana to make three, but those three are locked to a fixed color string, so the card is filtering as much as ramping; it turns a single colorless source into a perfectly aligned red-green-white triple. That makes it strongest in decks that want to cast something splashy and triple-pipped a turn early, and nearly useless anywhere that needs flexibility, since you cannot bend the output toward two of one color or away from a color you do not want. The 2/2 body is incidental, a creature-type tax that keeps it relevant to Elf synergies more than to combat. As a piece of fixing it sits in a narrow band: too color-committed for generalist ramp, too efficient at its one job to ignore in a dedicated three-color shell built around the exact shard it serves.

Knotvine Mystic (con)
CON · #114uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.45
Foil: $4.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana, Tap: Add Red manaGreen manaWhite mana.
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
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