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Blue Dragon

Creature — Dragon5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The interesting design choice here is that the entry effect only touches power, never toughness. Lightning Breath spreads -3/-0, -2/-0, and -1/-0 across up to three creatures (only the -3/-0 target must be one an opponent controls), which means it does not kill anything: it strips offense while leaving every blocker on the board. That is a deliberately unusual answer profile. Most seven-mana creatures that come down with a removal clause want to clear a path or trade up; this one is built to neuter a swarm's attack step for exactly one turn cycle, blunting three attackers at once while the 5/5 flyer starts pressuring the air. The temporary window ("until your next turn") makes it a tempo tool rather than a permanent sweep, best against wide aggressive boards where dropping the collective power output buys the time a slow controlling body needs to stabilize. It reflects a broader design pattern of using -X/-0 as a softer, non-lethal cousin to conventional removal: the creatures survive, so it dodges recursion and death triggers entirely, but it also does nothing against a single large threat whose power you can only shave, not erase. That narrow lane (many small attackers, no big ones) is the constraint that keeps a body this size honest at seven mana.

Blue Dragon (afr)
AFR · #49uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Lightning Breath — When this creature enters, until your next turn, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0, up to one other target creature gets -2/-0, and up to one other target creature gets -1/-0.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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