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Naban, Dean of Iteration

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard1 generic manaBlue mana

The doubling here is narrow in a way that rewards exact reading: it touches enter-the-battlefield triggers, but only those caused by a Wizard, and only the triggered abilities of permanents you control. That fences the card off from the obvious Panharmonicon comparison even though they sit in the same design family. Panharmonicon doubles any creature or artifact ETB; this requires the entering permanent to be a Wizard, which forces a deckbuilding commitment up front rather than just packing the deck with value bodies. The payoff cuts the other way: the doubled triggers do not have to come from Wizards at all: anything you control with an ETB-care trigger fires twice when a Wizard arrives. That gap between the trigger source (any permanent) and the qualifying creature (a Wizard) is the whole engineering problem the card hands you. The 2/1 body for 1 generic manaBlue mana is incidental; the value scales entirely with how much you have invested in tribe and in permanents that watch creatures enter. The result is a tension between two axes that usually do not overlap: a creature-type theme and an ETB-payoff engine, stapled together by a single legend that only matters if you commit to both at once. Build one half and it does nothing; build both and every Wizard becomes a two-for-one you have already paid for.

Naban, Dean of Iteration (pdom)
PDOM · #58srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

If a Wizard you control entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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