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Daring Thief

Creature — Human Rogue2 generic manaBlue mana

The whole Donate archetype, compressed into a creature that fires on a clock you control. Where Donate and its descendants ask you to give an opponent something they regret owning, this asks the opposite: it takes the best thing on the other side of the table and hands over your worst, repeatedly, as long as it keeps untapping. The type-matching clause is what stops it from being unrestricted theft. You can swap a token for their bomb only if both share a card type, so the engine wants a stable of cheap, expendable permanents that line up against whatever the opponent is playing: an enchantment for an enchantment, a creature for a creature, a worthless artifact for a Sword. Inspired ties all of it to the untap step, which gives the card a peculiar tempo demand: the body has to tap first and then untap, so you either attack with a fragile 2/3 and survive the swing back, or tap it for some other purpose and let your untap step rearm the trigger. Building an artificial untap loop turns the swap into a recurring grind that strips an opponent's board down to its scraps. It is a build-around in the truest sense, a payoff that does nothing until you assemble the deck of decoys it wants to trade away.

Daring Thief (jou)
JOU · #36rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $1.02
Oracle Text

Rules text

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares a card type with it.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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