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Novijen, Heart of Progress

Land

A manland's cousin: instead of becoming a creature, it grows the board, and only the creatures that just entered. The activated ability rewards a specific tempo of play, dumping multiple creatures in a single turn and then anointing all of them at once. This makes it a payoff for go-wide token decks and for any deck that can flash or flicker several bodies into a turn, since the counter lands on every creature that entered that turn, not just the ones you cast. The cost structure is the honest part: it taps for colorless on its own, so it always pays its way as a land, but the counter ability demands both green and blue plus the tap, which prices it as a slow, mana-intensive engine rather than a free upgrade. The Simic flavor is doing real design work here. The guild's whole identity is the marriage of growth (green's +1/+1 counters) and manipulation (blue's evasive, tempo-driven creatures), and this is that thesis compressed into a single land slot. The permanence matters too: unlike a one-shot anthem, each activation banks the bonus on the creatures forever, so a deck that activates it across several turns can stack a lasting size advantage out of an otherwise inert land drop.

Novijen, Heart of Progress (c21)
C21 · #305uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.38
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Colorless mana. Green manaBlue mana, Tap: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered this 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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