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Kodama of the West Tree

Legendary Creature — Spirit2 generic manaGreen mana

The word "modified" is what makes this build. Voltron and counters strategies had always faced the same problem: pile enough enhancement onto one creature and a single removal spell or chump blocker undoes the whole turn. This Spirit answers both halves at once. Trample on any enhanced attacker means the counters, Equipment, and Auras that used to get walled now punch through, and the combat-damage trigger converts that connection into ramp, one basic per creature that lands a hit. The genius is that "modified" is a permissive tag rather than a narrow one: an Aura, a piece of Equipment, or a single +1/+1 counter all qualify, so a wide board of enhanced attackers each fetch a land, not just your one built-up threat. That reframes the fetch clause from a slow value engine into an explosive one on a go-wide counters board. The 3/3 body with reach is deliberately modest; this is a lord and an engine, not a beater, and it wants the rest of your creatures carrying the enhancements it rewards. What it does that no single card had done before is service both the +1/+1 counter aggregate and the enchantment-based Voltron shell under one definition, letting two archetypes that rarely shared a payoff run the same engine. The reach comes from the same design instinct, keeping the engine alive against fliers so your ground army keeps connecting and keeps ramping.

Kodama of the West Tree (pneo)
PNEO · #199pmythic
Pricing
Normal: $20.30
Foil: $19.77
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach Modified creatures you control have trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
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
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