Close Encounter

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Character Background

Close Encounter is a clean green trick that rewards proactive board development while still functioning as efficient removal, making it especially appealing in tempo and midrange shells. The “additional cost” of choosing a creature you control or a warped creature card in exile means you can turn your best attacker into a lethal shot, often preserving momentum by clearing the way for combat damage. In practice, it plays like a scalable fightless burn spell: a 4/4 or larger body can erase most relevant blockers, and even a modest creature can punish an opponent who taps out. Deckbuilders should value cheap evasive creatures, temporary power buffs, and any cards that exile themselves or create warped creatures, since those can turn this into surprise reach from nowhere. It’s strongest when your deck already wants to attack, then convert board presence into removal and closing power.

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