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Blade Juggler

Creature — Human Rogue4 generic manaBlack mana

Spectacle is a mechanic built to reward the aggressive deck for doing what it was already going to do: attack. That framing is exactly what makes this card work. At its printed five mana, a 3/2 that pings you for one and replaces itself is a mediocre midrange creature. Reduce the price to three mana because an opponent has already bled, and the same body becomes a curve-topper that refills your hand after a hard turn of attacks. The self-inflicted damage is the tell: this is a card designed for the deck that treats its own life total as a resource, so a point of damage to draw a card is a trade you gladly make when you are the one dealing damage rather than taking it. The design is a neat compression of two effects aggressive black decks have always wanted (a body and a card) into a single spell whose cost floats down precisely when you are winning. Cheap card advantage has historically been the aggro deck's structural weakness: the beatdown plan runs out of gas, and the control deck outlasts it. Spectacle answers that by tying the discount to tempo already spent, so the reload only comes online when you have earned it. Whether the payoff justifies a slot depends on how reliably the deck can turn spectacle on, which is the whole conditional this card is built around.

Blade Juggler (rvr)
RVR · #67common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Spectacle 2 generic manaBlack mana (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
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

2 sets
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