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Traveling Minister

Creature — Human ClericWhite mana

The sorcery-speed clause does something counterintuitive: it makes the card worse at the thing its ability describes and better at the thing it was actually built for. A tap-for-pump that fired at instant speed would live in bluff territory, holding the untapped body to threaten a surprise combat step. Restricting the activation to sorcery speed closes that line entirely: you can only fire it during one of your own main phases, so if all you want is the life, you can even hold the button until after combat and press it then. What remains is a lifegain lever you can pull once per turn cycle. Each pull asks for nothing but the tap: no cards, no mana past the single white to cast it, just a legal creature to point the +1/+0 at. That trickle of life is the real payload; the power boost is cover for a life-total dial you can crank for free. This is a white one-drop whose stats are beside the point, where the body exists to carry a repeatable activated ability and the combat math rounds to zero. The restriction that would flag a combat trick as clumsy instead sharpens this one: it stops the card from pretending to be a source of ambush damage and aims every activation at the same lifegain axis that gives it a home in the first place.

Traveling Minister (dbl)
DBL · #306common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. You gain 1 life. Activate only as a sorcery.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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