So this card does a lot for just one green mana. It’s pretty awesome. It lets you pick off an enemy’s creature with your pumped creature, then you get to attack past the now-dead creature with your now-bigger monster. Sounds good to me!

But wait, that sounds too good to be true… what’s the catch?

Well, the power balancing comes in the form of very narrow application. You have to target both a green creature you control, AND a green creature your opponent controls. It can’t serve as a slightly weaker Giant Growth in a pinch by only targeting your own green creature, because even though the second target is in a separate sentence, targets are all chosen as you cast a spell. When a spell asks for targets, you have to able to choose ALL those targets in order to cast the spell at all.

In other words, you probably don’t want to include this card in your main deck at a limited event, as you have a reasonable chance of never being able to cast it. It’s a great sideboard card, though, so appreciate it for what it CAN do rather than what it CAN’T do!

Today’s Rules Tip written by Josh Stansfield