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Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Wizard

Two very different cards share one frame, and the front side is quietly the more interesting build. A 1/3 that untaps whenever you cast a legendary spell converts a modest loot (draw, then discard) into a repeatable engine: in a deck packed with legends, each cast is a fresh activation, so it filters your draws while the board fills with commanders and heroes. The tap ability is deliberately unremarkable on its own; the untap trigger is what turns it into a machine, and the legend density of the deck sets the rate. That the transform cost can be paid with life through the Phyrexian mana clause matters more than the mana number itself: it lets shells with no black source flip her anyway.

The back side is the flavor payoff and a genuinely unusual defensive design. Rona, Tolarian Obliterator punishes any source that deals damage to her, not just an attacker, by exiling a card at random from that source's controller's hand and handing it to Rona's controller (a land onto the battlefield, anything else cast for free). This is the wrinkle: it turns the act of removal against the remover. Point a burn spell at her or block her down and you feed the theft trigger with your own card, so combat damage and spell damage alike become liabilities. Trample keeps her a threat once flipped. The two faces sit at opposite ends of the card-advantage axis: one a slow selection loop, the other a theft engine that indicts every point of damage.

Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom)
MOM · #75rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.81
Foil: $2.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a legendary spell, untap Rona. Tap: Draw a card, then discard a card. 5 generic manaBlack or Phyrexian mana: Transform Rona. Activate only as a sorcery. (Black or Phyrexian mana can be paid with either Black mana or 2 life.) // Trample Whenever a source deals damage to Rona, that source's controller exiles a card from their hand at random. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Otherwise, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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