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A-Akki Ronin

Creature — Goblin SamuraiRed mana

The whole design pivots on a word most attack triggers avoid: alone. Rather than reward going wide, this hangs its card filtering on the single-attacker gambit that Samurai and Warrior decks are built around anyway, and the trigger reads more broadly than it first appears: any Samurai or Warrior you control that swings unaccompanied turns on the filter, not just this goblin. That distinction matters, because a 1/2 for Red mana is happy to stay home and hold the fort while a beefier tribesman goes solo. The filtering is card-neutral in a way that shapes how you use it: it bottoms a card and draws a card, so you are trading quality, not accruing raw advantage. The deck-manipulation angle (burying a flooded land, a situational answer, or an excess body onto the bottom of the library) is quietly the point. The alphabetic prefix marks it as a rebalanced version, a signal that the effect wanted tuning in one environment while the base card lived elsewhere. What keeps the engine in check is the plan it demands: it only turns while the lone-attacker line holds, and that line gets harder the more creatures you commit to the swing. So the card sits at odds with the go-wide instinct its tribes usually invite, paying out precisely when a single attacker can get through: an open board, a cleared blocker, an opponent tapped out. The read is that tension, a smoothing engine that rewards attacking narrow.

A-Akki Ronin (neo)
NEO · #A-131common
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, you may put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. If you do, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
N/A
Vintage
N/A
Commander
N/A
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
N/A
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
N/A
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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