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Anvilwrought Raptor

Artifact Creature — Bird4 generic mana

Colorless evasion is the job here, and the package is a tidy one: a flying first striker any deck can cast because it asks for no color commitment at all. The artifact frame is what makes this design unusual. Flying and first strike together normally read as a white or red template, the keywords of an exalted attacker or a soldier built to win combat clean; bolting them onto a four-mana artifact body lets a colorless or off-color deck buy aerial pressure that also dominates the air defensively, since a first-striking flier eats most other birds before they connect. The 2/1 frame is the constraint that pays for that profile: the toughness is low enough that the first strike does real work blocking small fliers but folds to almost any burn or fight effect, so the card never overstays its rate. It is a clean, modular piece of evasion, the kind of effect a set reaches for when it wants flying available to decks that have no other access to it.

Anvilwrought Raptor (ths)
THS · #211uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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