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Thwip!

InstantWhite mana

The bulk of this card is a color-standard combat trick: a one-mana pump that also hands a creature evasion for the turn, exactly the kind of instant white has printed in some form since the earliest sets. What makes it worth a second read is the tribal rider tacked onto the end. Grant +2/+2 and flying to anything, but grant it to a Spider and the trick also gains you 2 life, folding a combat blowout and a lifegain trigger into the same mana. That conditional is the design's tell: it is a generic pump spell that quietly wants to live in a Spider deck, where the incidental life offsets the aggression of throwing a creature into unfavorable combat. The flying grant is the sharper half of the interaction anyway. Spiders famously reach up to block fliers but rarely fly themselves, so pointing this at your own arachnid turns a defensive body into a surprise attacker, or ambushes an opposing flier that thought it was safe above the ground game. The card reads as a nod to the flavor of a web-slinging Spider that suddenly takes to the air, with the mechanics bent to match: a trick that is functional in any white deck, but only fully paid for by the tribe it names.

Thwip! (msc)
MSC · #780common
Pricing
Normal: $0.49
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. If it's a Spider, you gain 2 life.
Legalities

Format Status

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