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Bant Sureblade

Creature — Human SoldierGreen or Blue manaWhite mana

The hybrid symbol in the corner is the tell: this is a card built to be cheap regardless of which two colors you can field, payable as a green-white or blue-white two-drop, but written so that it only earns its full keep inside a deck stuffed with gold cards. The conditional is the whole design tension. A 2/1 for two with no upside is filler; a 3/2 first striker that trades up in combat is a genuine aggressive body. The card refuses to commit to either, leaving the size and the keyword hostage to a second multicolored permanent on your side of the table. That makes it a payoff disguised as curve-filler: it rewards the kind of three-color board where multicolored cards are the norm rather than the exception, and it punishes the deck that splashed for it without committing to the full allied-color shard. The first strike matters more than the stat bump, since a 3/2 that hits first dominates the early-combat math an aggressive multicolor deck cares about most: it trades up against 3/3s and walks through chump-sized blockers untouched. It belongs to that brief school of design where a card's color identity and its strategic identity were deliberately fused, the body literally getting better the more your deck looks like what its frame promises.

Bant Sureblade (arb)
ARB · #143common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

As long as you control another multicolored permanent, this creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike.
Legalities

Format Status

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