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Woodland Guidance

Sorcery3 generic manaGreen mana

Regrowth has always paid for its raw power by being a single card: spend the slot, get something back, move on. This sorcery splits that bargain into a baseline recursion effect and a payoff gated behind clash, the top-of-library mana-value gamble that defined a whole block's worth of design. Win the clash and every Forest you control untaps, which on a four-mana sorcery turns the recursion into something close to free: get a card back, refill your mana, and conceivably chain into another spell the same turn. Lose it and you have simply paid above rate for a Regrowth, which is the floor the design is willing to accept. The clash is a deliberately soft randomizer; you can stack your own deck's top card to swing the odds, and the payoff is upside rather than a requirement, so the card never feels punishing when the reveal goes the wrong way. The real restriction is the closing line: the spell exiles itself as it resolves, so it never reaches your graveyard at all. That is what shuts off the obvious "regrow myself" loop at the source: there is nothing to bring back, by construction. What remains is a green value piece built around a mechanic that asks a deck to thread expensive spells through its curve, and to care about the top of its library in a color that usually leaves it alone.

Woodland Guidance (lrw)
LRW · #243uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $2.29
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Clash with an opponent. If you win, untap all Forests you control. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.) Exile Woodland Guidance.
Legalities

Format Status

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