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Daybreak Charger

Creature — Unicorn1 generic manaWhite mana

Three power on a two-mana body is white's aggressive tax, and the 1-toughness is the bill: this dies to nearly anything, so the trade math runs against it the moment it stops attacking. The entry trigger is what keeps it from being a plain beater. Because the +2/+0 can point at any creature you choose, including itself, the pump is a one-shot combat swing that arrives detached from the Charger's own summoning sickness. Drop it alone and it can push another attacker into lethal range; drop it as a follow-up and it can force a favorable trade on a board that had stalled. The pump is not free to hide, though. With no flash, the Charger only lands at sorcery speed, so the +2/+0 is declared before an opponent commits blockers rather than sprung after combat is joined: the swing is a threat they can play around, not an ambush. That constraint keeps a fragile 3/1 with a real combat bump honest, and it locates the card in a long white-aggro tradition of bodies that do a little damage math the turn they enter even when the board is otherwise quiet. The effect is small and the shell is brittle, but on-curve power paired with a single portable point of reach is workmanlike aggressive-white filler: a block that fills out the curve rather than headlines it.

Daybreak Charger (j22)
J22 · #172common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, target creature gets +2/+0 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
Legal
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