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Springmantle Cleric

Creature — Elf Cleric4 generic manaGreen mana

The counters scale with how many colors of mana you spend, which quietly turns a plain green body into a payoff for building wider than green. Cast it off a single color and you get a 3/4 that does little to bend a game; feed it a five-color manabase and it lands as a 7/8, with the middle cases sitting wherever your fixing reaches. The design is a reward stapled to a deckbuilding constraint: it costs nothing extra to play but pays out only if your board and mana already stretch across the color pie, which makes it a natural top-end for a ramping, greedy manabase that wants an excuse to be greedy. What keeps the payload from being trivial is that it is fixed at cast: the counters are decided the moment it resolves and never grow again, so this is a snapshot of your color access on one turn rather than an engine. That puts it in a small family of green fatties whose size is a function of your mana rather than a printed number, an idea green keeps returning to because it lets one card be a modest speed bump in a two-color deck and a genuine threat in a five-color one. The Cleric typing and the modest floor mark it as a card that asks you to commit to the colors first: it wants the manabase built before it can cash the check.

Springmantle Cleric (znr)
ZNR · #205uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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