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Restorative Technique

Sorcery2 generic manaGreen mana

Three green rewards bolted onto one sorcery, and the joints are welded looser than they look. Ramp, incidental lifegain, and a growth counter each have a home in green's toolkit, but they rarely share a deck because none of them wants the same one. Fetching a basic tapped onto the battlefield is the fixing-and-acceleration package green has printed in a dozen shapes; the two life is a rounding error that occasionally matters; the counter is the aggressive rider that pulls the card toward whichever attacker is already deployed. The wording splits into two halves: the life and the land both attach to one target player, so those two ride together wherever you point them, while the +1/+1 counter is the only clause that aims somewhere else. That lets a political or group-hug build ramp an opponent it wants to keep happy while quietly pumping its own board, and a solo build simply names itself for the life and the land, then drops the counter wherever it does the most work. The catch is the same as the appeal. A card that does a little of everything asks you to be satisfied with a little of everything, and green's three-mana slot is crowded: a spell that only fixed mana would cost less, one that only grew a body would hit harder. What this offers instead is a sorcery-speed hinge across three axes at once, worth casting on the turn all three marginal gains stack into something one of them alone would not reach.

Restorative Technique (msh)
MSH · #183common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target player gains 2 life, then searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
Legal
Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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