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Oath of Druids

Enchantment1 generic manaGreen mana

Build a deck that wants to fall behind. That is the perverse instruction at the center of this enchantment: the upkeep trigger only fires when an opponent controls more creatures than you, so the deck constructed around it runs almost no creatures of its own, deliberately staying empty to keep the engine live. An empty board is the cost of admission, and the payoff is cheating an oversized creature directly onto the battlefield from the top of the library while everything above it lands in the graveyard as fuel. That self-imposed constraint is the whole archetype. The recursion-and-reanimation lineage that grew up around it (graveyard payoffs, fatties that want to skip their mana cost, library manipulation to control exactly what flips) made it one of the defining build-around enchantments of its era, powerful enough that the eternal formats where green ramp and broken creatures coexist have largely kept it restricted or banned. The card you reveal matters far more than the rate of the enchantment itself: this is a delivery system, and the deck is whatever you decide is worth delivering for free. The most elegant builds even weaponize the mill, stacking the library so the cards dumped on the way to the creature are precisely the ones you wanted in the graveyard anyway. The enchantment costs two mana and asks one question; the deckbuilder answers it by giving up the entire normal game of playing creatures.

Oath of Druids (vma)
VMA · #223mythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player chooses target player who controls more creatures than they do and is their opponent. The first player may reveal cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. If the first player does, that player puts that card onto the battlefield and all other cards revealed this way into their graveyard.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Banned
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Banned
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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