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Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

Legendary Creature — Elf Ooze Wizard2 generic manaGreen manaBlue mana

Cloak is what makes both modes here answers to the same question. A face-down permanent enters as a colorless creature with ward, which means the first mode manufactures fodder from your hand while hiding whether that fodder is a mana dork, a finisher, or a blank you had no way to cast yet. The second mode grows every colorless creature you control, and the cloaked bodies the engine keeps producing read as colorless, so they qualify for the counters the same engine hands out. The scaling also reaches whatever else you already run that counts as colorless: artifact creatures, Eldrazi, the odd construct. Both choices trigger after untap but before you declare attackers, so this grows the board the same turn it swings rather than tipping its hand a turn early, and a cloaked creature card unlocks later for its mana cost whenever you want it face up. What the design settles is an old friction: colorless-matters payoffs have historically lived in artifact or Eldrazi shells that compete with green-blue for the same slots. Putting the payoff and the machine that produces its targets on one legendary body means the deck chasing the counters is already the deck making the creatures those counters land on. It reframes green-blue's usual value plan (card advantage, tempo, incremental growth) around bodies that arrive concealed and get bigger before anyone learns what they are.

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma (pmkm)
PMKM · #241pmythic
Pricing
Normal: $2.87
Foil: $2.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Cloak a card from your hand. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward 2 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) • Put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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