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Scion of Ugin

Creature — Dragon Spirit6 generic mana

Six mana for a 4/4 flyer with no text past the keyword is a rate that spends its entire budget on being simple. That plainness is the design point, not a shortfall. A card this bare at this cost is a deliberate space-saver: a Dragon Spirit that adds to a tribe's headcount without demanding the attention a build-around or a rare would. It asks nothing of the pilot and pulls exactly one lever, the creature type, which makes it the kind of body other cards count rather than a card that counts on its own. The flying is the only strategic texture here, and it does honest work: a 4/4 in the air closes games slowly but on a clock nothing on the ground interrupts. Vanilla-adjacent bodies like this exist so that tribal payoffs have something to reward and so that a curve has a reliable evasive top-end when nothing more ambitious is on offer. Judged against the many creatures that bury text on their fourth line, this one's whole utility is being a clean, evasive Dragon that competes for no attention it doesn't need.

Scion of Ugin (plst)
PLST · #DTK-1uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying
Legalities

Format Status

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