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Moxonomy

Tomik, Wielder of Law

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor1 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana

The third punishment clause is the reason to notice this. Playing a 2/4 flier with vigilance for three mana is unremarkable on rate; the payoff is the way it taxes an opponent's alpha strike. Once two or more attackers are committed at you or your planeswalkers, they bleed three life and hand you a card, which flips the arithmetic of racing: an aggressive board suddenly can't swing wide without financing your draw step and closing its own clock. It is a deterrent priced as a body, and the tension it resolves is a familiar one for planeswalker-heavy decks, which live and die by whether they can protect a walker through a turn of combat. The affinity clause ties the two halves together: the more walkers you control, the cheaper Tomik gets and the more targets there are to trigger the punishment. That's a coherent design loop, a defensive engine that rewards the exact battlefield state it protects. The name and the earlier Tomik, Distinguished Advokist share a legal-authority flavor thread, but this is a different card doing different work: the earlier one warded lands, this one polices how creatures are allowed to attack. Where a Ghostly Prison or a Propaganda charges a toll to attack, this waits until the attack is declared and then extracts the toll after the fact, which makes it a punisher rather than a gate.

Tomik, Wielder of Law (soc)
SOC · #333mythic
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Affinity for planeswalkers (This spell costs 1 generic mana less to cast for each planeswalker you control.) Flying, vigilance Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, that opponent loses 3 life and you draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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