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Spry and Mighty

Sorcery4 generic manaGreen mana

The math is the whole engine, and it inverts the usual green logic. Green rewards you for going wide and going big; this card rewards you for building a gap. X scales off the difference between two creatures' powers, so the payoff is largest when you pair your fattest threat with something tiny: a 7/7 next to a 1/1 draws six cards and pumps both by six, dragging the runt up to a 7/7 with trample while your big creature swings as a 13/13 until end of turn. Pair two evenly matched bodies and you get nothing but a whiff, no cards drawn and no stat boost, which is the constraint that stops it from being a flat draw-plus-anthem spell. That single subtraction reframes the deckbuilding question: you no longer want a curve that smooths out, you want a lopsided board, one enormous power outlier and a cheap body to measure against it. It folds card advantage and a lethal alpha-strike enabler into one sorcery, but only for a board built to feed it. The trample on both chosen creatures is what converts the arithmetic into damage rather than just a bigger blocker; the temporary +X/+X on the smaller creature is often incidental, a side effect of a symmetric buff that green would rather point at the one that can actually connect. It is a combat spell disguised as a draw spell, priced so the difference has to already exist before you cast it.

Spry and Mighty (ecl)
ECL · #329rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.49
Foil: $0.81
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose exactly two creatures you control. You draw X cards and the chosen creatures get +X/+X and gain trample until end of turn, where X is the difference between the chosen creatures' powers.
Legalities

Format Status

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