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Breena, the Demagogue

Legendary Creature — Bird Warlock1 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana

Political engines usually reward you for staying quiet: goad, curse counters, the vow cycle that turns a creature harmless against you. This one inverts the logic by paying out for motion. The trigger fires when any player attacks one of your opponents, provided that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, which quietly nudges combat toward whoever is ahead on life. The payoff is split in a way that keeps everyone complicit: the attacker draws a card, so aggression is always worth something to the person committing it, while the counters land on your board. You are not policing the game so much as sponsoring it, funding draws for whoever swings in the direction you want. Because the condition is a life-total comparison rather than a fixed threshold, the incentive keeps shifting: the current leader is a valid target until they stop being the leader, and every attack that lands can reshuffle who qualifies next. That makes the card less a static value spigot than a running incentive structure, one that grows your board while others do the swinging. The 1/3 flier can pile the counters onto itself and turn evasive, or feed a bigger threat elsewhere, but the body is almost incidental; the way it shapes multiplayer combat is really the point.

Breena, the Demagogue (oc21)
OC21 · #1mythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, that attacking player draws a card and you put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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