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Caldaia Guardian

Creature — Human Soldier3 generic manaGreen mana

Blitz and the death trigger answer the same question from opposite ends, and this card wires them together on purpose. Big green bodies want to attack but also want to survive, and the tension between tempo and value is exactly what blitz exploits: pay a discount, swing immediately, and let the creature sacrifice itself when the turn winds down. Most blitz creatures pay for that self-sacrifice with a card off the top. This one pays twice, because its own death qualifies for its own trigger: a four-mana creature dying is a four-mana creature dying, so blitzing it out means haste, a card on its way to the graveyard, and two 1/1 Citizen tokens besides. That is the wrinkle. The trigger keys off any creature you control with mana value 4 or greater, not just itself, so it reads as an aristocrats payoff dressed in a beatdown creature's clothes: every heavy hitter you sacrifice, chump, or trade pays out a pair of bodies. The 4/3 stat line is honest for a fair midrange threat, but the design is aimed past combat, at a board built to die profitably.

Caldaia Guardian (pncc)
PNCC · #56prare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature or another creature you control with mana value 4 or greater dies, create two 1/1 green and white Citizen creature tokens. Blitz 2 generic manaGreen mana (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)
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
N/A
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