Essence of the Wild

set	min	mtgo
-	0.71	0.02 tix

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Name	Essence of the Wild
Type	Creature — avatar
Description	Creatures you control enter the battlefield as a copy of Essence of the Wild.
Flavor	Wander too far into the wild and it may take you for its own.
Artist	Terese Nielsen
Set	Innistrad #178
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Essence of the Wild

Essence of the Wild, Creature — avatar, designed by Terese Nielsen first released in Sep, 2011 in the set Innistrad. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 0.71.

This card would be best suited for a deck that focuses on generating a large number of creature tokens, such as a token or ramp deck. While Essence of the Wild can be powerful in the right circumstances, it may be considered too slow and mana-intensive for competitive play. A potentially better alternative could be cards like Parallel Lives or Doubling Season, which can also amplify token production but without the restrictions of Essence of the Wild's mana cost and ability limitations.

Rules

09/22/11

Creatures you control don’t copy whether Essence of the Wild is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.

09/22/11

If a creature such as Cryptoplasm that’s already on the battlefield copies Essence of the Wild and modifies its own copy effect, that modification is also copied by creatures entering the battlefield under your control.

09/22/11

Other enters-the-battlefield replacement abilities printed on the creature entering the battlefield won’t be applied because the creature will already be Essence of the Wild at that point (and therefore it won’t have those abilities). For example, a creature that normally enters the battlefield tapped will enter the battlefield as an untapped Essence of the Wild, and a creature that would normally enter the battlefield with counters on it will enter the battlefield as an Essence of the Wild with no counters.

09/22/11

Replacement effects that modify how a creature enters the battlefield are applied in the following order: first control-changing effects (such as Gather Specimens), then copy effects (such as the abilities of Essence of the Wild and Clone), then all other effects. This is a minor rules change to make Essence of the Wild and similar cards in the future work intuitively.

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