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Kytheon's Tactics

Sorcery1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The white team-pump spell, tuned to a shell that has already spent instants and sorceries before it goes wide. The +2/+1 line is a deliberate skew toward reach: two extra points of power spread across a board of attackers does far more to close a game than the odd point of toughness, which rarely survives a blocker anyway. Where similar overrun effects of the era leaned on a flat bump or a trample grant, this one ties its upside to spell mastery, paying you vigilance only once two instants or sorceries have hit the graveyard. That clause does quiet structural work: vigilance turns the alpha strike into a swing that keeps blockers back, so an aggressive deck that has been burning or bouncing all game can finally commit its whole board without conceding the crackback. The condition rewards a tempo-aggro build that fills its yard as a byproduct rather than a pure creature deck, which is the point: it cashes in a graveyard you were going to build anyway, not one you have to bend the list to assemble. Cast it with an empty yard and it is a serviceable anthem for a turn; cast it with mastery online and it becomes a closing line the opponent cannot answer by trading on the swing back.

Kytheon's Tactics (ori)
ORI · #25common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, those creatures also gain vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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