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Woodvine Elemental

Creature — Elemental4 generic manaGreen manaWhite mana

Swing this Elemental and the whole table becomes a slot machine: every player, you included, flips the top of their library, every nonland that surfaces pumps your attacking team, and then everyone refills a card. The symmetry is what keeps the effect honest, but it is symmetry only on the drawing side. In a duel it reads as near-parity, a 4/4 trampler for six that reloads your opponent exactly as fast as it reloads you, with two reveals feeding a modest buff. Widen the table and the arithmetic bends in your favor: four opponents mean five reveals total (theirs plus your own), so the pump scales with the crowd while each player claws back only a single draw. Parley is priced correctly only on a crowded board; the buff is a function of how many hands sit opposite it, and anyone judging the card through a one-on-one lens will misread it. Trample is the necessary partner. A swing that large wants to spill over a blocker rather than be chumped, so the pile of revealed spells converts into real life loss instead of a wasted attack. What the card models is the shape of a political payoff in green-white: the gift to the table is immediate and flat, a card apiece, while the advantage you purchase grows with every additional player forced to help you flip the top of their deck.

Woodvine Elemental (cns)
CNS · #52uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Parley — Whenever this creature attacks, each player reveals the top card of their library. For each nonland card revealed this way, attacking creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Then each player draws a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
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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