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Raka Sanctuary

Enchantment2 generic manaRed mana

A red enchantment that does not care about red at all: it asks instead for white and blue permanents, the two colors that sit opposite red on the wheel rather than beside it. Control one of them and it pings a creature for one each upkeep; control both and it leaps to three, a recurring Lightning Bolt's worth of removal that fires every turn for no further mana. That inverts how splash-rewards usually worked in this era, which gated multicolor power behind painful casting costs: here the price is paid in deckbuilding rather than at the moment of casting, and the payoff is a removal engine that keeps grinding whether or not you draw threats. The conditional check resolves on upkeep, so it cannot answer anything the turn it lands and cannot pick off a blocker mid-combat, but a board that survives one rotation starts bleeding creatures on a clock. It belongs to a cycle of five sanctuaries, one per three-color wedge, each keyed to a base color and the pair of enemy colors that oppose it rather than the allies flanking it. That keying is the whole experiment: the deck is rewarded for being greedy with colors that do not naturally fit together, then asked to live with a permanent that only earns its keep once the greed has already paid off.

Raka Sanctuary (apc)
APC · #67uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.89
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a white or blue permanent, this enchantment deals 1 damage to target creature. If you control a white permanent and a blue permanent, this enchantment deals 3 damage instead.
Legalities

Format Status

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