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Raised by Wolves

Enchantment — Aura3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Most Auras stake everything on one creature surviving, and the punishment for interaction is brutal: if the target dies in response to the Aura spell, the spell fizzles outright, hitting the graveyard without ever resolving and without its enters trigger firing. This one does not dodge that vulnerability, but it changes what you keep once the Aura sticks. The two Wolf tokens arrive when the enters trigger resolves, and from that point the board holds four power across two bodies that killing the enchanted creature cannot claw back. That decoupling is the design move worth noticing: after the Aura is on the battlefield, the buff and the army are answered separately, so a removal spell on the host leaves the Wolves standing. The +1/+1-per-Wolf clause then folds those tokens back into the bonus, so the Aura that made the Wolves also scales off them, and any other Wolf you control deepens the pump. It wants a host with evasion or a combat keyword to turn that swing into damage before the opponent can trade down. The whole point is to convert the standard Aura liability (a two-for-one waiting to happen the instant the host is answered) into a plan whose floor, once the trigger has resolved, is still two creatures on the board.

Raised by Wolves (bng)
BNG · #135uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $2.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, create two 2/2 green Wolf creature tokens. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each Wolf you control.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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