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Thraben Charm

Instant1 generic manaWhite mana

White charms live or die on how much filler their third mode carries, and this one is unusually honest about the deck it wants. Enchantment removal is the evergreen white staple, the mode you never build around but are glad to have; the graveyard-exile clause is the interchangeable hate slot that lets the card cash in as an answer when the other two modes go dead. The first mode is where the design tips its hand: damage scaling off your own board count means the card is not priced as removal at all but as a payoff, blank when you are behind and a lopsided blowout when you are ahead. Two creatures already matches a burn spell; a developed white board turns it into an instant-speed removal spell that scales past anything a fair deck can absorb. That is a go-wide reward smuggled into a utility-charm frame, and it reads the board state rather than a single target: the more creatures you have committed, the less the opponent's toughness matters. The charm's flexibility is genuine, but the mode that defines it is the one that only works when you are already winning the board, which makes it a card that rewards commitment rather than hedging.

Thraben Charm (mh3)
MH3 · #45common
Pricing
Normal: $0.36
Foil: $1.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Thraben Charm deals damage equal to twice the number of creatures you control to target creature. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile any number of target players' graveyards.
Legalities

Format Status

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