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Nirkana Revenant

Creature — Vampire Shade4 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

Mana-doublers that touch lands sit in a delicate corner of design: ramp scales nonlinearly, so a creature that doubles every Swamp in a mono-black deck hands you acceleration and a payoff stapled into one body. Caged Sun and Crypt Ghast double black mana too, but they leave you to find somewhere to spend it. Here the +1/+1 ability is the sink that closes the loop. The flood of black mana the first ability creates has nowhere better to go than back into the same body, so a 4/4 becomes a clock that grows by the entire surplus of a developed mana base every turn. The Shade subtype is the genre, and the genre's premise (a creature that converts mana into power at instant speed) is exactly what a Swamp-doubler was built to feed. The two abilities read as a single closed system rather than two effects sharing a card: the more land you commit to it, the faster both halves accelerate, and the same untapped Swamps threatening a lethal pump are also the ones funding the rest of your turn. It functions less like a ramp creature and more like a self-contained engine, and the only thing it asks of a list is Swamp count: the higher the number, the harder both halves of the card hit.

Nirkana Revenant (bbd)
BBD · #150mythic
Pricing
Normal: $10.29
Foil: $54.58
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional Black mana. Black mana: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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