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Raffine's Guidance

Enchantment — AuraWhite mana

The graveyard clause is what turns a plain +1/+1 aura into a card worth running. Auras have always carried a structural risk that raw stat-boosters like Unholy Strength never solved: spend a card enchanting a creature, and any removal spell answers two cards with one, a two-for-one that has kept most vanilla pumps out of serious play for decades. Buying it back from the graveyard for a modest cost softens that math. The first cast still eats the classic Aura tax if the creature dies, but the card is no longer gone; it waits to be recast onto the next threat, converting the two-for-one into a slow attrition edge. That reusability is what justifies wanting a one-mana +1/+1 at all, and it reframes the aura from a one-and-done buff into a repeatable value piece for a go-wide board where any body will do as a target. As a sorcery-speed enchantment with no flash, it commits before combat rather than reacting during it, so the recursion is doing the work an instant-speed pump might otherwise do: it keeps the resource in play across turns instead of spending it in a single exchange. The design also quietly rewards decks that fill their own graveyard, since a discarded copy is just as castable as a dead one. It is a small effect built around a real insight about why cheap Auras historically failed, and the recursion is the mechanism that answers that failure.

Raffine's Guidance (soc)
SOC · #162common
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Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying 2 generic manaWhite mana rather than paying its mana cost.
Legalities

Format Status

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