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Lifespinner

Creature — Spirit3 generic manaGreen mana

A tutor in tribal clothing, and one that charges a steep down payment before it does anything. The 3/3 frame is incidental; the whole card lives in the activated ability, which asks you to tap and feed three Spirits into the engine to fetch a legendary Spirit permanent straight onto the battlefield. That cost structure is the tension worth examining. Three sacrificed bodies is a real board commitment, the kind of price that only makes sense if the target you pull is worth more than the sum of what you fed in, and only if you had a Spirit-dense board to feed it in the first place. So the card double-gates: it wants a tribal shell wide enough to spare the fodder, and it wants a legendary Spirit payoff dramatic enough to justify the whole transaction. Put-onto-the-battlefield rather than into-hand is the part that pays for the rest, since it sidesteps the mana cost of whatever you are cheating in, which is where the value actually lives. This sits at the demanding end of tribal infrastructure: not a goodstuff card, not a midrange staple, but a deliberate top-end for a deck built around small Spirits and a few oversized legendary ones. The design is honest about what it wants, which is most of a board and a narrow library, and what it returns is a free, uncounterable arrival in exchange.

Lifespinner (bok)
BOK · #133uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.32
Foil: $1.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap, Sacrifice three Spirits: Search your library for a legendary Spirit permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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