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Nyxbloom Ancient

Enchantment Creature — Elemental4 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaGreen mana

Green's mana amplifiers have always stopped one increment short of breaking: Mana Reflection doubles what your lands and dorks produce, Vernal Bloom and Heartbeat of Spring pour extra out of specific sources. Tripling is a different order of math. A single tapped Forest becomes three; a Gaea's Cradle over a wide board becomes an obscene pile; any mana rock, any land you were going to tap anyway suddenly funds a turn that reads like a misprint. The card does not build a combo so much as inflate whatever engine you already have, which is why it lives most naturally in decks already fixed on generating too much mana and only wanting more. The 5/5 trample body is almost incidental, the tax that keeps this from being a pure enchantment payoff: it commits to the board, threatens actual damage over the following turns, and dies to the same removal any seven-drop creature dies to, which is the leash holding the effect in check. Read the phrasing carefully. It triples the mana a permanent produces when you tap it, which sweeps in the mana rocks, the dorks, and the Treasure tokens you crack (a Treasure taps as part of its own sacrifice cost, so it counts). What falls outside its reach are the instant-speed rituals that produce mana without tapping a permanent at all. That is a narrow gap, but it is the difference between an extravagant ramp payoff and one that simply ends the game by resolving.

Nyxbloom Ancient (prm)
PRM · #79965mythic
Pricing
Normal: $28.29
Foil: $82.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.
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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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