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Constable of the Realm

Creature — Giant Soldier4 generic manaWhite mana

Look at what the exile keys off: not renown, but any placement of +1/+1 counters on the body. Renown 2 is just the built-in way to arm it the first time, landing a hit to add two counters and firing one exile that pins a nonland permanent until this leaves. The generalized trigger is where the design opens up. Every outside counter source becomes a fresh removal event: proliferate, a counter-doubler, an outlaw pump, another creature dumping counters here, each one re-arms the exile and buries a second or third permanent. That reframes a plain 3/3 as a modular disruption engine whose ceiling is set by how many counters a deck can generate, not by its own combat math. The balancing wrinkle is the exile duration, which returns everything the instant this dies. So a board assembled one permanent at a time collapses on a single removal spell, which flips the usual math: killing this is not a trade you punish, it is how the opponent claws their permanents back, making their removal genuinely precious and pressuring you to stack several exiles under it before they draw an answer. Renown dresses it up as an attacker, but the more dangerous line never swings twice, feeding counters from elsewhere to peel a board apart a permanent at a time.

Constable of the Realm (mh2)
MH2 · #10uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

Renown 2 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes renowned.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, exile up to one other target nonland permanent until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Printings elsewhere

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