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Genesis Wave
Oracle Text
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Card Details
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Character Background
Genesis Wave is one of green’s most dramatic payoffs for a battlefield-heavy value plan, turning a single sorcery into a flood of permanents if your deck is built to capitalize on it. In practice, it best supports ramp and midrange-combo strategies, especially lists that can generate large amounts of mana with dorks, treasure-like acceleration, or land ramp, then convert that surplus into immediate board presence. The card rewards deckbuilding discipline: pack your list with permanents whose mana values cluster at or below your likely X, and prioritize hit-saturated cards like mana creatures, token engines, enchantments, and utility permanents over spells that won’t be revealed. Its graveyard clause is usually a bonus rather than a drawback, since missed cards can fuel recursion or later value lines. Thematically, it feels like nature erupting in a sudden, unstoppable bloom—less a spell than a chain reaction, best cast when you’re ready to overwhelm the table.
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Character Background
Genesis Wave is one of green’s most dramatic payoffs for a battlefield-heavy value plan, turning a single sorcery into a flood of permanents if your deck is built to capitalize on it. In practice, it best supports ramp and midrange-combo strategies, especially lists that can generate large amounts of mana with dorks, treasure-like acceleration, or land ramp, then convert that surplus into immediate board presence. The card rewards deckbuilding discipline: pack your list with permanents whose mana values cluster at or below your likely X, and prioritize hit-saturated cards like mana creatures, token engines, enchantments, and utility permanents over spells that won’t be revealed. Its graveyard clause is usually a bonus rather than a drawback, since missed cards can fuel recursion or later value lines. Thematically, it feels like nature erupting in a sudden, unstoppable bloom—less a spell than a chain reaction, best cast when you’re ready to overwhelm the table.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 06:10:43 UTC