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Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaGreen mana

The untap clause is the reason this reads as more than a combat trick with staying power. Flash lets you drop it mid-combat, and because the Aura untaps whatever it lands on, an attacker that already swung can be sent back to blocking duty, or a creature you tapped for an ability can defend anyway. The +1/+2 and reach are stat-line insurance: the toughness bump plus reach lets a green creature ambush an evasive attacker it had no business trading with, at instant speed, and survive the exchange. A quieter piece of the design lives in the target line. Enchanting a Vehicle does not solve the crew tax (you still pay crew to attack or block), but the buff stays glued to the permanent even when it reverts to a noncreature, so the +1/+2 and reach persist across the crew-and-uncrew cycle rather than sliding off. Holding the card in check is that it remains a card-for-permanent commitment: the untap is a one-shot surge tied to the moment it enters, not a repeatable engine, so the value spikes on the turn you flash it in and settles into a modest aura afterward. This is the green pump-plus-utility aura in its most flexible form: not the biggest buff, but one that answers a specific combat problem (an untapped blocker, a flyer, a tapped-out attacker) in a window most green cards cannot reach.

Silken Strength (dft)
DFT · #180common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Enchant creature or Vehicle When this Aura enters, untap enchanted permanent. Enchanted permanent gets +1/+2 and has reach.
Legalities

Format Status

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