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Charming Scoundrel

Creature — Human Rogue1 generic manaRed mana

The whole design lives in the enters trigger: three lines that let a two-mana body pay for itself in whichever currency the deck happens to need. Card filtering, ramp-and-fixing, or a stat boost with an aristocrat rider baked in (the Wicked Role gives the attached creature a modest bonus and turns its death into a small drain), all off the same modular chassis. That is the trick to how a 1/1 for two mana earns a slot: it is never dead, because one of the three modes always advances the plan you already have. Haste is the quiet piece that ties it together, letting the body attack the turn it lands so the mode you skipped still isn't the whole point. Modal enter-the-battlefield creatures are an old lever for shipping flexibility at common and uncommon rates: give a small body a menu, and the card reads as three narrow effects a deck can pick between rather than one that misses. What sharpens this one is that the three options don't overlap in function; they map to three different things a red-based deck wants at three different moments, so the choice is a genuine read of the board rather than a formality. The Treasure and the Role token also make it a reliable enabler for anything that counts artifacts entering or creatures dying, which is where the card quietly outperforms its rate.

Charming Scoundrel (woe)
WOE · #124rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.90
Foil: $1.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste When this creature enters, choose one — • Discard a card, then draw a card. • Create a Treasure token. • Create a Wicked Role token attached to target creature you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

3 sets
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