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Victory's Envoy

Creature — Human Cleric3 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Anthems that hand out a static bonus are cheap because the effect is static; this one is priced instead against how it compounds. The upkeep trigger stacks a fresh +1/+1 counter on every other creature you control, so the payout each turn scales multiplicatively: wider boards convert more of the effect, and every extra turn it survives adds another layer on top. That is the crucial difference from a lord effect like Glorious Anthem: kill the anthem and the buff evaporates, but kill this and the counters it already distributed remain, welded to the bodies they landed on. Removal has to arrive before the first upkeep to keep it off the board entirely; let it untap once and the board is permanently larger no matter what happens to the Envoy afterward. The 3/3 body pointedly does not buff itself, which keeps the clock honest: it lands as a liability, and the opponent gets exactly one upkeep of grace to answer it before any value sticks. It reads as a payoff for the exact deck that struggles to close: the wide, grindy white board that needs its individual bodies to matter, converting a stalled position into an escalating army that only compounds the longer the game runs and the more creatures survive to catch each successive counter.

Victory's Envoy (mic)
MIC · #96rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.37
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Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.
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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