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Kor Spiritdancer

Creature — Kor Wizard1 generic manaWhite mana

The engine that made the Auras archetype viable instead of a trap. Aura decks live and die by card disadvantage: every enchantment you commit doubles your exposure when the buffed creature dies, and the classic punish is a clean two-for-one. This solves the math from the draw side. Each Aura cast refills the hand that the Aura emptied, so the deck that should be hemorrhaging cards is instead trading even or ahead while its threat grows. The 0/2 body is the cost: naked, it does nothing, and it dies to anything, which is what keeps a card-drawing engine attached to a recurring combat threat from being oppressive. But the +2/+2 per Aura scaling means the first enchantment that sticks turns it into a clock, and because the buff counts every Aura attached (not just the ones you cast), it rewards piling on rather than spreading out. The tension the design resolves is the oldest problem in Aura-based aggro: how do you justify spending a card to buff a creature when the creature might just die? Kor Spiritdancer answers by making the spending itself draw the replacement, converting the archetype's structural weakness into its engine. It is the rare build-around that does not ask you to change how you play Auras, only to play more of them.

Kor Spiritdancer (roe)
ROE · #31rare
Pricing
Normal: $3.51
Foil: $17.96
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it. Whenever you cast an Aura spell, you may draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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