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Minn, Wily Illusionist

Legendary Creature — Gnome Wizard1 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Two engines stapled together, each of which quietly asks something of the other. The first turns the second-draw trigger (the same clock that fuels wheels, extra-draw effects, and cantrip chains) into a growing pile of Illusion tokens, and because each token buffs the rest, the board scales geometrically rather than one body at a time. The second is where the design gets sly: when an Illusion dies, it cheats a permanent whose mana value is at most that creature's power straight from hand onto the battlefield. The pump ability is what makes the death trigger dangerous, because a lone 1/1 only cascades into a one-drop, but an Illusion swollen by a dozen siblings can drop a six- or seven-mana permanent for the cost of letting one token die. That reframes the whole board from a go-wide beatdown into a launcher: the tokens are not just attackers but fuel, and the interesting play is often sacrificing your biggest Illusion at the right moment rather than swinging with it. The 1/3 body signals the intent plainly enough; this is not a card that wants to be in combat. It wants to draw a second card, count its Illusions, and convert the graveyard trip into a permanent it never paid for.

Minn, Wily Illusionist (afc)
AFC · #16rare
Pricing
Normal: $7.37
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with "This token gets +1/+0 for each other Illusion you control." Whenever an Illusion you control dies, you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to that creature's power from your hand onto the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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