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Nylea's Intervention

SorceryX generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The two halves share nothing but a mana symbol and an X, and that is precisely the point. One mode is a scaling land tutor that fills your hand rather than the battlefield, so it buys card advantage and color consistency instead of tempo, and the shuffle that follows resets whatever you drew toward before searching. The other is a sweeper aimed only at the sky, dealing twice X to every flier: a rare thing to see stapled to the same card as a search effect. Charm-style modality earns its keep when the modes answer different game states, and this one is built around that split. When you are behind and staring down an evasive swarm, you want the damage; when you are stabilizing or ahead and want to widen a mana lead, you want the lands. The two jobs almost never come due on the same turn, which is what lets a single X spell cover both. Green's usual answers to flying are single-target and reactive: reach blockers, Plummet effects, the odd shot straight up. The color has had wider recourse too, from Hurricane down to the symmetrical damage-to-fliers spells that split the difference between board wipe and reach. What this design does is fold that anti-air option into a card whose default job is smoothing your draws, so the burn half sits in the deck as insurance you rarely pay for until the sky demands it.

Nylea's Intervention (thb)
THB · #188rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.81
Foil: $0.66
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.
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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