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Sylvan Anthem

EnchantmentGreen manaGreen mana

Green got its lord late, and this one arrived carrying an apology for the years it went without. The straight +1/+1 to green creatures is the standard tribal-lord package, the same shape white and blue and the rest had wielded for a decade, but the second line is the concession that makes a color-based anthem land differently: because "green creature" catches everything you play rather than a single sliver of your board, the scry trigger fires on nearly every deployment, turning a static buff into a repeatable card-selection engine. That is the tension it resolves. A tribe-specific lord asks you to commit to one creature type before it does anything; a color-wide anthem in a mono-green or heavy-green build is on almost from the moment it resolves, and each subsequent creature both grows the team and smooths the next draw. The design trades the raw power of a narrow lord (no keyword grant, no evasion, no tribal payoff) for breadth and consistency, which is exactly the axis green tends to want: flood the board, then dig toward the next threat. It rewards a curve built downward, where cheap creatures keep the scry pinging, rather than a single fatty that gets one +1/+1 and no selection at all.

Sylvan Anthem (mh2)
MH2 · #357rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.06
Foil: $1.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Green creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever a green creature you control enters, scry 1.
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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