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You Meet in a Tavern

Sorcery2 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Modal design usually asks you to weigh two effects against each other, but the two halves here answer different questions on different turns. Form a Party is a dig: five cards deep, keep every creature, bottom the chaff, refill a stalled hand in the midgame. Start a Brawl is a finisher, a mass pump that turns a wide board into lethal in a single combat step. What makes the split work is that they rarely compete for the same moment. Early, when you have creatures on the field and cards left in your library, the digging half is almost always live. Late, when the board is developed and the game is a race, the anthem half closes it. Its two modes peak at opposite ends of the game's arc, which is the harder version of modal design: not two comparable options, but two that trade dominance as the board state shifts. The green flavor is honest, too. Form a Party rewards a creature-dense deck by finding more bodies; Start a Brawl rewards the same deck by making those bodies bigger. Both halves point at going wide with creatures, so the card asks a single deckbuilding question and then hands you the right answer for whichever turn you drew it.

You Meet in a Tavern (clb)
CLB · #263common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one — • Form a Party — Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of creature cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Start a Brawl — Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

2 sets
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