What They Lack and the Road Home

Type: Token

Rarity: Token

Mana Cost: —

Color Identity: Colorless

Reminder card. WHAT THEY LACK: this creature enters with a lack counter on it. While it has a lack counter, it isn't legendary, it has base power and toughness 1/1, and its other abilities don't function. Only the price printed below removes that counter — one payment, once, and this creature never enters with a lack counter again.

Every companion names what it is MISSING and what the PRICE is, and the price is never generic: the Scarecrow discards your hand, the Tin Woodman pays five life, the Lion has to attack alone and connect, Oz sacrifices two artifacts, the Witch of the East sacrifices a land. A lack counter is not a -1/-1 counter and it is not a curse that grows — it overwrites the creature down to a 1/1 with its text switched off until somebody pays for it.

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: return all nonland permanents you control to your hand. Nothing is destroyed and nothing is exiled — everything comes home, and everything can be cast again. It is aimed at your OWN board, on purpose, at a moment you choose, and a companion who has already paid never enters lacking again — so going home is how you collect its enter-the-battlefield trigger a second time, and a third.

“Three of them were handed bran, red silk and a bowl of green liquid, and all three behaved afterwards exactly as they had behaved before.”

Single card from the THE WIZARD OF OZ (What They Lack) Commander deck. Sold individually.