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Mirrorwood Treefolk

Creature — Treefolk3 generic manaGreen mana

A green creature that asks for red and white mana to do its only trick is a relic of the multicolor-block experiment that built mono-colored cards whose activated abilities reached outside their own color pie on purpose. The 2/4 body is reasonable green wall-stuff, but the ability is the curiosity: pay four mana split between two unrelated colors and the next damage headed for this Treefolk gets redirected to any target you choose. That turns a combat block into a redirect: point an attacker's swing back at a different creature, or shunt a burn spell aimed at the Treefolk onto your opponent's face. The redirect catches the next instance of damage that turn, so it works as a pre-combat insurance policy or a response to a burn spell on the stack, but it only saves the Treefolk once per activation. The off-color activation cost is the point, not an oversight: it reads as a deliberate reward for being deep in three colors at a time when block decks were straining their manabases to do exactly that. It is a small gear in a larger design project of seeing how far a creature's relevant text could drift from the mana symbol in its corner.

Mirrorwood Treefolk (pls)
PLS · #83uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $1.99
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic manaRed manaWhite mana: The next time damage would be dealt to this creature this turn, that damage is dealt to any target instead.
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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