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Sunspine Lynx

Creature — Elemental Cat2 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Two static clauses stapled to an aggressive body, both aimed at the same enemy: the grinding, life-buffering midrange deck that beats red by outlasting it. Shutting off lifegain is old hedge tech, going back to Sulfuric Vortex and its kin, but stacking "damage can't be prevented" on top of it slams the second escape hatch (fog effects, damage prevention, protective shields) shut in the same breath, so the burn plan stays a burn plan no matter what defensive package the opponent assembled. The enters trigger is the actual innovation: it punishes greed directly, scaling its opening burst to how many nonbasic lands each player has committed. Against a deck leaning on painless duals, fetches, and utility lands, that number climbs fast; against a disciplined basic-heavy manabase, it whiffs entirely, and it will happily point damage at its own controller who over-optimized their own lands. That symmetry is the discipline paying for the effect: the design rewards the player who kept their mana honest and taxes the one who did not. A 5/4 for four is already a fair clock in mono-red; the two shutdown clauses and the land-tax burst convert it into a targeted answer to exactly the archetypes built to survive a fair clock.

Sunspine Lynx (blb)
BLB · #155rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.51
Foil: $2.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Players can't gain life. Damage can't be prevented. When this creature enters, it deals damage to each player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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