Armor of Thorns

Armor of Thorns

Enchant Creature
You may choose to play Armor of Thorns as an instant; if you do, bury it at end of turn. Play only on a nonblack creature. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
Illus. Alan Rabinowitz ©1996 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All rights reserved.

Armor of Thorns is one of a new variant of creature enchantments, referred to as "instant enchantments." Instant enchantments offer a choice: the permanence of an enchantment or the speed and flexibility of an instant.

Armor of Thorns costs one more mana than Giant Growth and only gives +2/+2 instead of +3/+3. But is it a worse card? Not at all! Most times adding +2/+2 is enough to kill your opponent's creature and save your own. And when you don't need Armor of Thorns as an instant, it becomes a Giant Strength. 'Armored' small creatures will cause many opponents to cringe.

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