Brawl Legal Vintage Legal Timeless Legal Commander Legal Pauper Not Legal Oathbreaker Legal Penny Legal Toolbox Buy This Card Notes and Rules Information for Champion of the Path: If Champion of the Path is countered or otherwise fails to resolve, the beheld card will remain in exile indefinitely
Youll always be down one token compared to Secure, but thats a small price to turn this spell into board protection as well
That combo is what makes them so absurdly good: Underground Sea, for example, is both an island and a swamp, so it works perfectly with fetch lands and fixes your mana super smoothly
In that regard, this card doesnt even feel like a significant color pie anomaly
Three mana for a 1/1 is awful, for a start, and the ability, while potentially powerful, is quite situational