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Thorntooth Witch

Creature — Treefolk Shaman5 generic manaBlack mana

Treefolk are the slowest tribe in the game, a board of high-toughness walls that win by attrition rather than tempo, and this is the card that bends that toughness into reach. The trigger looks like a downside-flavored lord effect, but +3/-3 is a removal spell stapled to every Treefolk spell you cast: shrink a creature to death, or clear a blocker for nothing more than the spells the deck already wants to play. The cleverness lives in the asymmetry. Treefolk bodies are built fat, so the -3 rarely threatens your own board, while almost anything on the other side of the table that the -3 reaches simply dies; meanwhile the +3 hands one of your durable walls a sudden, lethal swing of power until end of turn, converting a defensive creature into a clock. The body here is unremarkable, a 3/4 that blocks and otherwise stays out of the way; the value is entirely in the trigger and in how many Treefolk spells chain onto the stack behind it. As a design it solves a genuine problem for slow defensive tribes: how to turn a wall of high-toughness bodies into something that can close a game or punch a hole in the opposing line, without bolting on a generic removal suite that ignores the tribe entirely. The kill only arrives when you are casting Treefolk, and that constraint is exactly what pays for stapling repeatable removal to a tribal payoff.

Thorntooth Witch (lrw)
LRW · #144uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.80
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a Treefolk spell, you may have target creature get +3/-3 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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