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Ugin, the Ineffable

Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin6 generic mana

Colorless has never had a lord, because colorless has never been an identity you build toward: it is what you get when a card sits outside the color pie, not a tribe you assemble on purpose. This is the card that tried to make it one. The cost reduction on colorless spells is a mana engine aimed at Eldrazi and artifacts, the categories that live in the colorless space, and it turns a pile of generically-costed threats into something that can dump the hand ahead of curve. The +1 is the quiet workhorse: a 2/2 body every turn that banks a card you only collect once the token leaves the battlefield, so it defends the walker, chips loyalty upward, and pays you off on a delay rather than immediately. That leaves-the-battlefield trigger matters, because it fires on bounce and exile as readily as on death, so an opponent's clean answer to the token still hands you the exiled card. The minus is what lets it travel outside its own theme: destroy any permanent that is one or more colors, which reaches creatures, enchantments, walkers, and even colored lands, while sparing colorless permanents. That asymmetry is the design thesis, because your Eldrazi and artifacts sit outside the range entirely. Ugin has always been the plane's colorless conscience, and where the older, more expensive Spirit Dragon planeswalkers played as game-enders, this one plays as an enabler: cheaper, humbler, pointed at making the colorless deck a real deck rather than winning the game by himself.

Ugin, the Ineffable (war)
WAR · #2★rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.92
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Colorless spells you cast cost 2 generic mana less to cast. +1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand. −3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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