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Tribal Forcemage

Creature — Elf Wizard1 generic manaGreen mana

Most of its morph cycle flips into a single creature getting bigger or a death trigger going off; this one flips into a board-wide Overrun. The wrinkle is that it names a creature type rather than a creature: turning it face up at the right combat step hands every Goblin, Elf, or Soldier +2/+2 and trample at once. That makes the unmorph a tribal alpha-strike enabler stapled to a 1/1 body, with the 1 generic manaGreen mana morph cost acting as the hidden-information tax that buys the surprise. The disguise is doing the heavy lifting: an opponent reading a generic 2/2 has no way to price in a four-creature swing until the mana is already committed to the flip. The Elf Wizard line marks this as a card built to live in a creature-type deck, where the pump lands on a wide board rather than a lone attacker, and the trample rider is what keeps that pumped team from getting chump-blocked into a stall, converting the alpha strike into damage that actually closes. It is narrow by construction, dead in any deck without a shared creature type to choose, but inside one it turns a stalled ground war into lethal in a single untapped-mana window.

Tribal Forcemage (lgn)
LGN · #142rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.56
Foil: $33.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

Morph 1 generic manaGreen mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, creatures of the creature type of your choice get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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