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Springheart Nantuko

Enchantment Creature — Insect Monk1 generic manaGreen mana

Bestow was drafted as insurance: pay the aura cost to pump a body, and when that body dies you are refunded a creature instead of a two-for-one. This inverts the mechanic's purpose. Once the aura is riding a host worth duplicating, every land you drop offers a choice: pay again to stamp out a full copy of the enchanted creature, or, if you decline or cannot afford it, settle for a 1/1 Insect. The token clause keeps the trigger from ever whiffing; the copy clause is what turns a landfall payment into a threat that compounds. The important detail is that it copies the whole creature, so the aura wants to sit atop a card whose enters-the-battlefield trigger, activated ability, or static text is the real payload, and each land drop reprints all of it. Because playing a land is a main-phase special action, that engine normally fires on your own turns, though a fetchland or a land put onto the battlefield by another spell can extend it to an opponent's turn. The effect is a rare aura that scales with your mana development rather than depreciating the instant it resolves: the more lands you can string together, the more copies it produces, and the fallback body means the floor is still a stream of Insects. Cast as a creature it is a 1/1 that waits; its whole reason to exist is to be paid as Bestow.

Springheart Nantuko (pmh3)
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Pricing
Normal: $5.28
Foil: $5.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

Bestow 1 generic manaGreen mana Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay 1 generic manaGreen mana if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

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