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Wicker Witch

Artifact Creature — Scarecrow3 generic mana

A colorless body buys access at the door: any deck can run it regardless of the colors it plays, and its 3 generic mana generic cost is payable with whatever mana the deck already produces. The premium that universality demands lands entirely on the toughness. Three toughness would have made this a real blocker, a body opposing decks had to sequence around; one toughness makes it a glass-cannon attacker that trades down into almost anything and dies to any incidental point of damage. The Scarecrow line is atmosphere more than mechanics, since that creature type has rarely anchored a meaningful tribal payoff, so there is no synergy hook lurking under the type line: it is a generic-mana body and nothing more. That undertuning is deliberate. A creature this indiscriminately playable has to stay weak enough that it never crowds out a colored three-drop built to do the same job better in the deck that actually supports it. This is filler in the most literal sense: a placeholder for a curve slot, reached for when a deck has three mana to spend and no color-specific creature worth spending it on, wanted because nothing sharper is available rather than on its own merits.

Wicker Witch (soi)
SOI · #268common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.15
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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