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Akki Coalflinger

Creature — Goblin Shaman1 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Granting first strike to one creature is a combat trick; granting it to the entire attacking team, every turn, for one red mana, is a different kind of effect. The chump-and-trade block is the cheapest defensive line a swarm has to fear, and it depends on the blocker landing its damage before it dies. A team-wide first-strike anthem breaks that math outright: 1/1s and 2/2s that strike first kill before they take a return hit, so a board of small bodies turns every block into an unfavorable trade for the defender. This is goblin-aggro support, scaling not with the Coalflinger's own 2/2 first-striking body but with how many attackers stand beside it. The repeatable tap ability is what separates it from a one-shot pump spell: spend the mana, hold the board through combat, repeat next turn so long as the engine survives. That survival is the catch. With no vigilance, the Coalflinger can attack or activate, never both. To buff the team it stays home, which means you trade one attacker's worth of pressure to make every other attacker harder to block profitably. The price keeps the effect honest: a free anthem on a stick would warp combat, but sidelining the body to power it makes you choose between adding a threat and shaping the whole block step.

Akki Coalflinger (evg)
EVG · #33uncommon
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Normal: $0.44
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Oracle Text

Rules text

First strike Red mana, Tap: Attacking creatures gain first strike until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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