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Simic Guildmage

Creature — Elf WizardGreen or Blue manaGreen or Blue mana

Both activated abilities do the same structural thing in two idioms: they relocate something already in play rather than create it. The green half shuffles a +1/+1 counter from one creature to another; the blue half slides an Aura off one permanent and onto another. The only constraint either places is that the two permanents share a controller, so an opponent's stack of counters or a rival's enchantment is just as eligible for shuffling as anything on your own board. Neither ability makes value from nothing, which is the tell of a creature built for a guild whose whole pitch was reusing what it already had. The counter-mover is the obvious engine piece: any deck stacking counters through graft, proliferate, or modular gains a way to pool them onto a creature that matters, or to drain them off one about to die. The Aura-mover is the stranger, more pointed tool. Used in response to removal aimed at an enchanted creature, it does not save the creature (the spell still resolves and the body dies), but it rescues the Aura by reattaching it to a fresh permanent before the host leaves. It also pulls a crippling Aura off your own permanent, or shifts a useful one mid-combat. The hybrid pips let either color base run it while only the relevant half comes online cheaply in a one-color shell: a toolbox creature in the literal sense, two narrow wrenches, each idle until the deck supplies the bolts.

Simic Guildmage (dis)
DIS · #148uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $5.74
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Green or Blue mana can be paid with either Green mana or Blue mana.) 1 generic manaGreen mana: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller. 1 generic manaBlue mana: Attach target Aura attached to a permanent to another permanent with the same controller.
Legalities

Format Status

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