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Vortex Runner

Creature — Human Wizard2 generic manaBlue mana

The threshold is the whole design: eight lands is a count a normal deck reaches only deep into the game, which recasts this Wizard as a payoff for a deliberately land-heavy shell rather than a three-drop that earns its keep on curve. Below that count it is a 2/3 that trades and blocks and does nothing else; cross the eighth land and it becomes a 3/3 that can't be blocked, a slow clock that only switches on once the deck has flooded on purpose. What makes the condition workable is that once the count is met, the body attacks for guaranteed, evasive damage every turn rather than a single burst, so it fits a grinding deck happy to close a long game three points at a time. That same condition is also the limiter: the unblockable clause is dead in any deck that would rather be casting spells than laying its seventh, eighth, ninth land, and it only pays out for a build willing to reach a land count that would otherwise read as a mana-flood problem. The reward is aimed squarely at a shell that accumulates lands as a resource, handing that shell an evasive attacker precisely at the point where an overloaded manabase would normally start costing games.

Vortex Runner (stx)
STX · #60common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

As long as you control eight or more lands, this creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.
Legalities

Format Status

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