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Deserter's Disciple

Creature — Human Rebel Ally1 generic manaRed mana

Evasion-granting has always come cheap when it stays on a stick, and this is the sticky version: a repeatable tap ability that makes one small attacker unblockable every turn, no mana required. The power-2-or-less clamp is the whole balance, aiming the card at exactly the board it wants to live on: a wide swarm of one- and two-drops where the threat isn't any single creature but the accumulation of connections. Note the ability targets another creature, so it can't push itself through, which keeps the 2/2 body honest as a blocker or a chump rather than a self-sufficient clock. The interesting friction is the tap cost against a summoning-sick body: this is a build-around that pays off a turn late, rewarding a board already developed rather than one you're still assembling. Where the effect earns its keep is on creatures whose whole reason for connecting is a trigger the defender would rather eat than take: a pinger, a drainer, a saboteur that mills or draws on damage. In that shell the small-power restriction stops being a limit and becomes a filter for exactly the kind of creature you'd want unblockable anyway.

Deserter's Disciple (tla)
TLA · #131common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Another target creature you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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