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Treefolk Umbra

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaGreen mana

Umbra armor turned "destroy" into a stall by soaking the first removal spell or lethal block into the Aura instead of the creature, and this one bolts a fight-warping wrinkle onto that insurance. The toughness-for-power swap is the real design: on a defensively-statlined creature, it rewrites the combat math so the fat side of the body does the hitting. A wall that never threatened anything suddenly connects for the number that made it a good blocker, and the +0/+2 pushes that figure higher while stacking the exact stat the ability keys on. It is a rare piece of green tech that makes toughness an offensive resource rather than a purely defensive one, so a deck built around undercosted, overdefended bodies gets a payoff that plays both roles from a single Aura. The Umbra armor clause keeps the whole plan from folding to a single removal spell: the enchanted creature eats the first "destroy," shrugs off combat damage, and only the Aura dies, which means the tempo cost of answering it lands on the opponent rather than on you. The tension is card economy, as with any Aura: commit to a creature and lose both if it exits some way the armor does not cover (exile, bounce, sacrifice). But for the specific job of turning a stone wall into a clock while insulating it from spot removal, few auras do the two things at once.

Treefolk Umbra (mh1)
MH1 · #185common
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.83
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
Legalities

Format Status

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