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Amphin Pathmage

Creature — Salamander Wizard3 generic manaBlue mana

The repeatable unblockable enabler is one of blue's oldest evasion tricks, and this is the workmanlike version: a body that holds the activation rather than a one-shot effect stapled to a spell. The split here is what defines it. You pay 3 generic manaBlue mana once for a 3/2 that can chip in on its own, then 2 generic manaBlue mana every turn you want to push a creature through, which means the card's value scales with how long the game runs and how badly the opponent has gummed up the ground. That repeatability is the trade-off for the rate: three mana per activation is steep enough that it never threatens to combo off, but cheap enough to reliably escort a single threat past a stalled board, turn after turn. The most natural reading is as a finisher-helper in a deck that wants one big attacker to connect, whether to land combat damage or to deliver something stapled to it. The 3/2 body is fragile by design; you are not meant to attack with the Pathmage so much as use it to make sure the creature that actually matters gets in. It is a clean, unflashy expression of the idea that evasion you can buy again next turn is worth more in the long game than evasion you spend once.

Amphin Pathmage (m15)
M15 · #45common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic manaBlue mana: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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