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Tome Anima

Creature — Spirit3 generic manaBlue mana

The evasion here is priced against a specific engine: the 3/3 body swings unblockable only once you have already drawn two or more cards on the turn, which turns a stock draw-two spell or a repeatable card-advantage source into a combat green light. That conditional makes the creature a payoff attached to a subtheme rather than a threat you deploy on its own merits. Left to its natural clock, with nothing but the turn's normal draw step feeding it, the card stays a plain 3/3 that any blocker turns aside; add a single burst-draw effect before combat and the same body becomes a clean, repeatable attacker. The whole design turns on the gap between one card and two, which is why it wants a shell built to draw extra cards rather than a slot in any old blue deck. Compared to evasion that asks nothing (a flat flier, an intimidate keyword), this one demands you commit deck slots to drawing enough cards, so its power scales precisely with how much a deck already wanted to draw beyond its normal share. The 3/3 line matters to the pitch: large enough to trade or race once the condition is live. What it represents is a nudge toward a draw-two-matters tempo shell, a reward that only switches on when everything around it is already firing.

Tome Anima (m21)
M21 · #81common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked as long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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