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Asari Captain

Creature — Human Samurai3 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

The tension in every go-wide tribal deck is the same: your board gets threatening exactly when it stops being able to attack profitably, because a full team walks into blockers while a lone attacker gets chumped or traded. This design inverts that math for one narrow moment. When a single Samurai or Warrior comes in unaccompanied, it grows by the size of the entire team it left at home, so the wider you've built, the harder that one attacker hits. It rewards the board state that usually punishes aggression: a bench full of tapped-out or defensive creatures becomes stored damage, released through a single evasive or well-timed threat. The trick is that the buff scales off creatures you control, not creatures attacking, which means holding troops back is the enabling play rather than the passive one. That flips the normal aggro instinct and turns the deck into something closer to a single-swing burst engine, especially once haste lets the Captain itself attack the turn it lands. The +1/+0-per-body clause is power only, no toughness, so it's built to push damage through, not to win races on the ground; the reward is finishing, not grinding. It asks a specific question of the Samurai and Warrior tribes that most anthem effects don't: not how wide can you go, but how much of that width can you channel into one hit.

Asari Captain (neo)
NEO · #327uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each Samurai or Warrior you control.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
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
N/A
TLR
N/A
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