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Blitzball

Artifact3 generic mana

A three-mana rock that taps for any color is a modest thing on its own; the flavor keyword bolted underneath is where the design gets loud. GOOOOAAAALLL! turns a generic fixing artifact into a one-shot payoff, but only if a legendary creature connected with an opponent this turn, which welds the ramp to a legend-centric attack plan rather than to any board state you can assemble in isolation. That condition does the real work: the artifact sits inert as fixing until the turn your legendary swing goes through, then cashes itself for two cards as a reward for the aggression. The sacrifice sits at the center of the deal. You get one burst of card advantage, not a repeatable draw, so the same permanent lives two lives in sequence rather than at once: mana source first, then a self-destructing draw spell the moment combat cooperates. It is a design that reads as a joke (the keyword is literally a soccer chant) and functions as a genuinely pointed piece of build-around tension. The games where it does nothing are the games your legends stayed home; the games it draws two are the games you were already winning the combat math. The card asks not whether you have a legendary creature, but whether it is attacking, which is a narrower and more aggressive question than most fixing ever poses.

Blitzball (fin)
FIN · #254common
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add one mana of any color. GOOOOAAAALLL! — Tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards. Activate only if an opponent was dealt combat damage by a legendary creature this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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