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Leafkin Avenger

Creature — Elemental Druid2 generic manaRed manaGreen mana

A mana dork that scales with beef rather than count is a strange animal, and it changes what the ramp is for. Most creature-based accelerants pour out one green regardless of the board: this one taps for green equal to your fatties, so it is worthless in a deck of one-drops and explosive in a deck of monsters. The 4/3 body is the point twice over, because it counts itself; without haste it sits out the turn it enters, but on the following turn a battlefield of large creatures turns it into a fistful of mana. That mana wants somewhere to go, which is why the second ability exists. The eight-mana firebreathing-adjacent activation is a sink built for exactly the kind of overflowing green board the tap ability produces, converting surplus green into a reach-adjacent finisher that hits players and planeswalkers directly. The design tension is elegant: the more the tap ability rewards you, the closer you are to being able to fire the sink, so a stalled ground of big creatures becomes a clock without needing to attack through blockers. It is a druid that ramps toward its own win condition, and the whole thing only works if you have already committed to going wide with power rather than bodies.

Leafkin Avenger (m21)
M21 · #220uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Green mana for each creature with power 4 or greater you control. 7 generic manaRed mana: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target player or planeswalker.
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
N/A
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