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A-Winota, Joiner of Forces

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

The "A-" prefix marks the rebalanced, Alchemy-only cut of a card that got too good at its one job: the original warped its home format hard enough to earn a ban, and this version trims the ceiling without touching the core idea. That idea is a deckbuilding paradox most tribal decks would treat as a contradiction. The trigger wants non-Human creatures attacking, but the payoff only ever fetches Humans, so a build has to run two populations that pull in opposite directions: cheap non-Human bodies to swing and turn the crank, and a library stocked with Human beaters worth cheating out tapped, attacking, and briefly indestructible. Note the shape of the trigger carefully: it fires once per combat, off the declare-attackers step, whether one non-Human or five are swinging. It is not a per-creature engine and it does not wait on combat damage, so the value comes not from stacking triggers but from repeating the attack turn after turn while the board grows. The indestructible clause is what keeps the aggression relentless rather than fragile: the freshly summoned attacker walks through a chump block or a combat trick and survives to swing again. What earns the rebalance is exactly that snowball. In its original form the loop assembled lethal boards faster than most decks could answer the sequence; the fix keeps the sleight of hand intact. Attack with something that isn't a Human, and skip the mana cost on something that is.

A-Winota, Joiner of Forces (fca)
FCA · #A-19rare
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever one or more non-Human creatures you control attack, look at the top six cards of your library. You may put a Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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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