Tui and La, Moon and Ocean

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Tui and La is a 4-mana 3/3 legendary Fish Spirit that draws a card whenever it becomes tapped and grows with a +1/+1 counter whenever it becomes untapped — rewarding any tap/untap synergies with both card advantage and a scaling threat. It fits naturally into counters-voltron and +1/+1 counter shells, and benefits enormously from untap effects (Seedborn Muse, Freed from the Real, etc.), but without dedicated untap support it can only trigger once per turn cycle via normal attacks/abilities, limiting its ceiling outside of synergy-dense builds.

• Tui and La's triggers fire on ANY tap or untap — not just combat — meaning cards like Arbiter of the Ideal, Opposition, or Intruder Alarm that repeatedly tap/untap it can generate multiple draws and counters per turn cycle.

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• In Commander the card has strong synergy with untap-based infinite combos (e.g. Pemmin's Aura or Freed from the Real) turning it into an infinite draw + infinite counter engine, pushing it into combo territory in the right shell.

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• Because the draw trigger fires on becoming tapped (not on attacking), it can be activated through tap-for-ability effects without ever entering combat, making it resilient to chump-blocker strategies that would stall a normal voltron threat.

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• EDHREC rank: #13,786