Unconventional Tactics
Hour of Devastation 27 • uncommon
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Collector number
- 27
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Jason Felix
- Market price
- $0.19
What it does
Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever a Zombie you control enters, you may pay white mana. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Unconventional Tactics was released in 2017 as part of the Hour of Devastation expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Set on the plane of Amonkhet, a world inspired by Ancient Egyptian aesthetics and themes of eternal trials, the card depicts a strategic combat maneuver reflecting the set's focus on desert warfare and divine interference. It was designed as an uncommon-rarity card to provide players with a specific tactical interaction, allowing them to recur a creature from the graveyard while providing an evasive buff to a target.
The card features illustration by Johann Bodin, who focused on capturing the harsh, sun-drenched atmosphere characteristic of the Amonkhet plane. His artwork centers on the kinetic energy of a soldier engaging in a pincer maneuver, emphasizing the gritty, high-stakes nature of the set's narrative as the antagonist Nicol Bolas returned to reclaim the world. Upon its release, the card was viewed by the community as a functional tool for limited formats, praised for its efficient cost-to-effect ratio and its thematic alignment with the set's graveyard-centric mechanics.
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