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Archpriest of Iona

Creature — Human ClericWhite mana

Most tribal payoffs ask how many copies of one type you can stack; this one asks how many different classes you can spread across a single board. Its power tracks the breadth of that spread (one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard), so it starts as a fragile body and only becomes a real clock once you have assembled the whole diverse quartet. That is a genuine tension for a low-to-the-ground white deck, which wants its cheap creatures to matter on turn one, not turn four; here the reward for building across four classes is an attacker that grows with each new type and hands out evasion every combat. The combat trigger demands a full party with no partial credit: assemble all four and it converts a ground stall into flying damage every turn, exactly the reach an aggressive creature deck otherwise lacks; fall a class short and it is a modest body whose ability never fires. That binary gate, either the party is complete or the trigger does nothing, sorts the players who treated diversity as a construction constraint from the outset from the ones who stumbled into three of the four. It is a build-around dressed as a one-drop, and it pays only the deck that committed to the four-class spread before it ever cast the card.

Archpriest of Iona (clb)
CLB · #686rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Archpriest of Iona's power is equal to the number of creatures in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you have a full party, target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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