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Waxing Moon

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

The werewolf mechanic's core problem was always tempo: the day-side cards were weak by design, and the flip happened on someone else's schedule, gated by whether a turn passed without spells being cast. This is the green attempt to seize that timing back. Casting it at instant speed flips a werewolf into its stronger night side on demand, sidestepping the usual transform condition entirely, and it does so during your own turn when the flipped body can actually attack. The trample rider is what turns the flip into a finishing blow rather than just a stat boost: a transformed werewolf is often a large creature that an opponent has been chump-blocking, and trample across your whole board punishes them for it. The "up to one" target matters too, since it lets the spell cast purely for the team-wide trample even when you have no werewolf to flip, or when all your werewolves are already on their night side. It is a combat trick wearing tribal-payoff clothing, built specifically to convert the werewolf archetype's mid-combat size advantage into damage that connects. Outside that shell it does little, which is the honest cost of a card this narrowly aimed.

Waxing Moon (emn)
EMN · #177common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $1.76
Oracle Text

Rules text

Transform up to one target Werewolf you control. Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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