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Pawpatch Formation

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

Green's answer to the flexibility problem, priced at two mana. The color has always been the primary answer to enchantments and fliers, and it usually gets one narrow tool per card: an enchantment wipe stapled to a creature, a fight spell that can only aim upward. This folds three of those jobs into one instant and picks the mode at the moment you cast it. Two of the choices are the classic green anti-air and Naturalize effects, kept tight to what green is allowed to touch; the third is a pure value line that replaces the card and leaves a Food behind. That third mode is what makes the card worth a slot when the removal targets are absent: a hedge against a hand full of a card that would otherwise be dead, converted into a cantrip with a small lifegain kicker attached. The design discipline here is that the destruction modes stay inside green's color pie (flying and enchantments, not creatures at large), so the flexibility never crosses into removal green was never supposed to have. What you are buying is not raw power but the elimination of the dead-draw: an answer that is always live because its worst case is still a card and a Food.

Pawpatch Formation (blb)
BLB · #186uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.36
Foil: $0.44
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with flying. • Destroy target enchantment. • Draw a card. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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