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Moonbow Illusionist

Creature — Moonfolk Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

Manabase manipulation is a strange home for a 2/1 flier, but that activated ability is the entire reason this Moonfolk exists. For two mana and a land bounce, it rewrites the basic land type of any land on the battlefield: an effect that reads like color fixing and behaves like sabotage. Point it at your own dual-typed lands and you smooth color requirements at instant speed; point it across the table and you can strand an opponent's nonbasic activation, turn off a domain count, or cut off a color right as they need it. The bounce cost is what keeps the loop in check: every activation costs you a land for a turn, so the ability favors a build that wants its lands back anyway (landfall, the Moonfolk's own bounce theme, anything that profits from replaying a tapped-out turn). The Moonfolk all shared this land-to-hand tax as their signature drawback, but the others mostly converted it into card advantage or evasion; this one converted it into a repeatable land-type editor in blue at a meaningful rate. The body is incidental, a cheap flier to chip at life totals while you tinker. The interest lives in how few decks can actually pay the bounce profitably, and how disruptive the effect becomes the moment one does.

Moonbow Illusionist (sok)
SOK · #46common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.87
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying 2 generic mana, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target land becomes the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
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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