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Savaen Elves

Creature — ElfGreen mana

A green Disenchant stapled to a body, but with a target so narrow it documents an entire vanished era of play. This destroys Auras attached to lands and nothing else: not creature enchantments, not the artifacts green has always been licensed to break, just the spells someone has hung on a land. That specificity only makes sense in a world where land-enchantment effects were a real threat worth answering at all, the kind of disabling and stealing tricks that early sets traded in freely. Pricing the activation at two green mana plus a tap on a fragile one-drop tells you Wizards never expected this to function as repeatable removal in any practical sense; the body exists to carry one narrow hate effect and otherwise sit unused. The design philosophy on display is the opposite of the modern instinct to make every effect as broad as it can safely be: this is hyperspecialized hate, answering one tiny category and refusing to flex. The result is a curiosity, a green creature doing a white-flavored job under conditions almost nothing in the game still creates, preserved as a snapshot of what the early metagame thought worth a dedicated answer.

Savaen Elves (drk)
DRK · #84common
Pricing
Normal: $0.32
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Green manaGreen mana, Tap: Destroy target Aura attached to a land.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
Legal
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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