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Winota, Joiner of Forces

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

The trigger runs off the wrong creature type. Every other Human payoff card wants you to fill a board with Humans and swing; this one only fires when a non-Human attacks, which quietly forces a deck to run two creature populations that pull in opposite directions. You need cheap, expendable non-Humans (tokens are the obvious engine) to swing and pull the trigger, and a top-end of expensive Human bombs worth cheating past their mana cost. The creature that swings first is not the creature that wins; it is the ticket that pays for the one that does. Each non-Human attacker digs six deep and drops a Human onto the battlefield tapped and attacking, indestructible until end of turn, so those payoffs arrive already committed to combat before an opponent gets a real window to interact with them. Because the ability keys on the attack step rather than on cast or on combat damage, a single go-wide turn chains multiple triggers into multiple free Humans, snowballing a board into lethal in a step that skips both summoning sickness and the mana those Humans would normally owe. That explosiveness is why the card drew bans in constructed play not long after it appeared: a four-mana 4/4 that converts a token swarm into a pile of free indestructible finishers ends games from board states that looked survivable a turn earlier.

Winota, Joiner of Forces (piko)
PIKO · #216pmythic
Pricing
Normal: $5.32
Foil: $8.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever a non-Human creature you control attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Banned
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
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
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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