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Spirit Mascot

Creature — Spirit OxRed manaWhite mana

Most graveyard payoffs reward filling the yard; this one rewards emptying it. The trigger fires when cards leave your graveyard, which inverts the usual incentive structure: instead of milling and delving to stock a resource, you cash that resource back out and get paid for the exit. Flashback, escape, disturb, unearth, embalm, and every recursion spell that returns a creature to hand all become growth engines here, and crucially the trigger counts the event, not the cards, so one big exile-your-whole-graveyard effect ticks it exactly once. That pushes the design toward a steady drip of small departures rather than a single blowout. The counters are permanent, which matters: unlike a temporary pump, each departure banks lasting stats, so a Boros shell built around cheap recastable spells and self-returning threats can turn a 2/2 into a real clock over a few turns. What makes the card unusual is the accounting it enforces on the graveyard: synergy in this color pair normally asks you to hoard, but pairing this creature with those same enablers turns the yard into a spend-it-to-grow account, where the reward for using your resources is the same body that carried your early game getting harder to answer every time you dip in.

Spirit Mascot (sos)
SOS · #230common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
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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