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A-Kona, Rescue Beastie
Oracle Text
Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if Kona is tapped, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
A-Kona, Rescue Beastie fits best into a value-oriented midrange or ramp shell that can turn its peculiar “Survival” clause into real card advantage. As a 4/3 for five mana, it isn’t meant to brawl efficiently; instead, it rewards you for attacking, tapping it through crew or other effects, or simply finding safe ways to exhaust it so the second main phase can cheat a permanent straight from hand onto the battlefield. That makes haste enablers, tap outlets, and vigilance tension especially interesting, since you want Kona tapped before your postcombat main phase begins. The strongest deckbuilding tip is to lean on high-impact permanents with enters-the-battlefield value—extra lands, utility enchantments, or chunky threats—so every successful trigger feels like a major swing. The “Rescue Beastie” flavor feels like a survivor dragging help out of the nightmare, and mechanically it plays like a resilient bridge from combat pressure into explosive board development.
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Character Background
A-Kona, Rescue Beastie fits best into a value-oriented midrange or ramp shell that can turn its peculiar “Survival” clause into real card advantage. As a 4/3 for five mana, it isn’t meant to brawl efficiently; instead, it rewards you for attacking, tapping it through crew or other effects, or simply finding safe ways to exhaust it so the second main phase can cheat a permanent straight from hand onto the battlefield. That makes haste enablers, tap outlets, and vigilance tension especially interesting, since you want Kona tapped before your postcombat main phase begins. The strongest deckbuilding tip is to lean on high-impact permanents with enters-the-battlefield value—extra lands, utility enchantments, or chunky threats—so every successful trigger feels like a major swing. The “Rescue Beastie” flavor feels like a survivor dragging help out of the nightmare, and mechanically it plays like a resilient bridge from combat pressure into explosive board development.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 18:40:43 UTC