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Vine Mare

Creature — Elemental Horse2 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The whole design is a closed loop pointed at one color. Hexproof shuts off removal from a black opponent's hand, and the evasion clause shuts off black blockers, so against a deck built on swamps the 5/3 body simply cannot be answered in either of the two ways black usually answers a creature: it can't be targeted by removal, and it can't be chumped by the spider or zombie standing in front of it. That two-pronged hate is the trick. Hexproof alone is generically useful; "can't be blocked by black creatures" alone is a narrow color-hoser. Stacked together they make a clock that one specific archetype has almost no clean tools against, precisely the asymmetric pressure aggressive green wants in a metagame leaning on black control. The cost of that focus is the toughness. Three is fragile to anything that doesn't need to target (combat, edicts that sacrifice rather than destroy, board sweepers that hit toughness), so the protection it does carry is loud about what it doesn't cover. It is a member of a small mare cycle, each a hexproof body that can't be blocked by one enemy color, and the green one is the most aggressively statted of them: the largest power, the lowest toughness, the bluntest expression of the idea that this creature exists to attack a black opponent to death and nothing else.

Vine Mare (plst)
PLST · #M19-207uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) This creature can't be blocked by black creatures.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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