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Candlelit Cavalry

Creature — Human Knight4 generic manaGreen mana

Coven is the payoff mechanic that punishes uniform boards, and this is the plainest possible test case for it: a vanilla-adjacent green beater whose only wrinkle is that it wants your creatures to line up at three different power values. The condition is checked at the beginning of combat on your turn, so the trample it earns is not a static grant but a recurring question about what your battlefield looks like when you swing. That timing matters because it rewards a board built from a spread of sizes rather than a stack of identical tokens: a 1/1, a 3/3, and this 5/5 clears the bar, but three copies of the same dork never will. It is the sort of design that quietly steers deckbuilding toward variety, a green counterweight to the go-wide token strategies that flood the board with matching bodies. On its own the 5/5 body is fine and the trample is welcome; the interesting part is structural, that the ability makes power diversity a resource rather than an accident, and asks you to care about how that stat is distributed across your board rather than only its raw total.

Candlelit Cavalry (mid)
MID · #175common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, this creature gains trample until end of turn.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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Other printings

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