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Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom // Sygg, Wanderbrine Shield

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard // Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue

A two-mana unblockable body that toggles between two colors of tempo, and the toggle is the point. The front face, Wanderwine Wisdom, wires a creature into a one-turn card-draw engine off combat damage, rewarding you for connecting; the back face, Wanderbrine Shield, hands out protection from every color, saving something from removal or pushing an attacker through a board it could not otherwise beat. What makes the design tick is that each face pays a different pip to become the other during your first main phase: the draw side spends White mana to flip forward into protection, the protection side spends Blue mana to flip back into card advantage, so you are never locked into one axis of value. Whether you want to draw or defend depends on what the board demands, and the swap comes back around next turn if the read changes. The unblockable clause carries across both faces, which keeps the combat-damage trigger on the Wanderwine Wisdom side live even against a full defensive line: an evasive Merfolk that reliably lands the hit needed to draw. Blue and white Merfolk have long been small evasive bodies stapled to disruption, and this is a compact expression of that identity, folding the tribe's aggression and its protective, tempo-oriented instincts into a single legendary that changes jobs on command.

Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom // Sygg, Wanderbrine Shield (ecl)
ECL · #288rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.66
Foil: $1.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sygg can't be blocked. Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom, target creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw a card" until end of turn. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay White mana. If you do, transform Sygg. // Sygg can't be blocked. Whenever this creature transforms into Sygg, Wanderbrine Shield, target creature you control gains protection from each color until your next turn. At the beginning of your first main phase, you may pay Blue mana. If you do, transform Sygg.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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