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A-Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Legendary Creature — Human Elf RogueBlue manaBlack mana

The whole design pivots on a self-supplying loop: the attack trigger manufactures the unblockable connection that the combat trigger then punishes, so the drain is never contingent on a favorable board. Most evasion-plus-attrition creatures ask you to solve the "how does it connect" problem separately (a keyword, a sacrifice outlet, an opposing empty board); this one carries both halves in a single 1/3 body, making the drain, the mill, the lifegain, and the scry a guaranteed package rather than a hopeful one. That symmetry is the interesting part. Each hit is a four-way ledger swing (opponent down a life and a card off the top, you up a life and filtering your own draw), a slow but relentless grind rather than a burst. The unblockable clause targets any attacker, not just this creature, which quietly redirects the value: point it at a bigger threat and this becomes an enabler for a whole squad, not merely a self-serving evader. The A- prefix marks it as a rebalanced Alchemy variant of a printed Human Elf Rogue, the digital format's tuning of a card built for incremental card advantage. The 1/3 frame does the balancing: it connects every turn but threatens almost nothing by itself, so the payoff lives entirely in repetition and in the creatures it chooses to sneak through.

A-Krydle of Baldur's Gate (afr)
AFR · #A-226uncommon
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever Krydle of Baldur's Gate deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1. Whenever you attack, target creature can't be blocked this turn.
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
Printings elsewhere

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