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Conifer Strider

Creature — Elemental3 generic manaGreen mana

Five power and one toughness, wrapped in hexproof: a stat line that protects exactly the wrong half of itself. Targeted removal slides off, and any opponent hoping to point an edict-free answer at it comes up empty, but a single point of toughness means combat does all the work removal cannot. Nearly any blocker eats this for free, and a stray point of incidental damage is a death sentence, so the hexproof matters only when nothing is in the way. The intended assembly is transparent: bolt on an aura or a piece of equipment the opponent cannot strip, give it a way past blockers, and swing for a pile that resists disruption. That makes it an enabler for evasion-and-voltron shells rather than a creature that holds a board on its own; fair decks shrug it off, since they rarely need a spell to deal with a 5/1. The fragility is the price of the package, and it is doing real work: a 5-power hexproof body that survived combat as easily as it survives removal would be a problem in any aggressive game. Pinning the durability to spells only, while leaving the body trivially blockable, keeps a cheap untargetable beater from running away with games it has not earned.

Conifer Strider (plst)
PLST · #DTK-179common
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
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