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Piety Charm

InstantWhite mana

Three jobs that rarely overlap, stapled to a single white mana: enchantment removal, a Soldier-specific pump, and a team-wide vigilance grant. The design here is a deliberate hedge against dead cards in a tribal aggro deck. The Soldier pump only fires if you have a Soldier on board, the vigilance line wants a developed battlefield, and the Aura destruction is purely reactive, so any one mode might be a blank in a given matchup; bundling all three guarantees the card is live somewhere. This is the modal-charm template doing exactly what charms were built to do, smoothing variance by trading raw power for flexibility. None of the three modes is impressive on its own (a conditional +2/+2 is a weak trick, and most decks would rather have a generic disenchant than one chained to enchantments-on-creatures), but the white-weenie deck of its era wanted a one-mana instant that could win a combat step, alpha-strike with vigilance for the swing-back, or pop a removal Aura on its best attacker. Notice where the strongest mode gets gated: the +2/+2 is locked to a creature type, narrowing the pump to keep it from being a freely splashable trick. The Soldier clause is what binds the card to a specific shell rather than the open market, pricing its best line for the deck it was actually built to serve.

Piety Charm (ons)
ONS · #49common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.53
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Destroy target Aura attached to a creature. • Target Soldier creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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