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Rally of Wings

Instant1 generic manaWhite mana

A combat trick with a pseudo-vigilance clause bolted on, and the untap is where its whole logic lives. Most flying-tribal pumps ask you to commit your fliers to attacking and then leave your board open for the crackback; this one lets the swing and the wall stand at once. The play is to declare attackers, let them tap, and then cast in the combat step: the untap refreshes your board while the +2/+2 lands on the relevant fliers, so you attack and still hold everything back to block on the following turn. That reframes the buff as an alpha-strike enabler rather than a race tool. The untap is broader than the buff, too, so ground creatures and mana dorks come back online even though only the fliers grow, which lets the card double as a quiet ritual for creature-based mana or a way to refresh a tapped-out board mid-turn. Confining the +2/+2 to fliers is what balances the universal untap: it rewards a deck already leaning skyward rather than any wide swarm, while the refresh it grants everyone stays generic. Instant speed does the rest of the work; held up, it can ambush a would-be trade with two extra points on a flier the attacker did not expect to survive. The card's flexibility comes from separating the untap from the buff, and both are gated only by when you choose to hold it up.

Rally of Wings (war)
WAR · #27uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.30
Foil: $0.81
Oracle Text

Rules text

Untap all creatures you control. Creatures you control with flying get +2/+2 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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