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Old Ghastbark

Creature — Treefolk Warrior3 generic manaGreen or White manaGreen or White mana

A 3/6 for five mana settles in as a wall and asks nothing further, and that plainness is the design working as intended. The trick is in the casting cost: every symbol after the generic can be paid by green or white interchangeably, so a mono-green deck deploys this anchor without ever touching white, a mono-white deck does the same in reverse, and any Selesnya shell treats it as a free choice. That flexibility was the central idea behind this generation of dual-color creatures, which were built so a single color could pay the whole cost rather than demanding both. The payoff is reach: a common like this could slot into far more decks than a hard two-color card, because no one had to add a second land type to run it. Once it lands, the Treefolk Warrior does precisely what its toughness suggests, stonewalling ground attackers and buying turns while the deck advances its actual plan. There is no evasion, no activated ability, nothing past the body to mislead anyone about its job. It is a defensive plug that any green or white deck can field for the cost of the mana alone, and the value is entirely in how cheaply, in deckbuilding terms, that blocker comes.

Old Ghastbark (shm)
SHM · #232common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.51
Legalities

Format Status

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