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Doorkeeper

Creature — Homunculus1 generic manaBlue mana

A mill payoff disguised as a wall. The 0/4 body wants to do nothing but sit there, and that is precisely the point: the activated ability scales off creatures with defender, so every blocker you add is also a fraction of a deck you bury. This is the keystone the "Defender mill" archetype was built around, a deck that treats the battlefield like a manufacturing line, stacking walls behind it until a single activation dumps a fifth or sixth of an opponent's library at once. What balances it is the inseparability of the two roles: the wall is both the win condition and the wall, so you cannot race anyone with a 0/4, and the deck has to survive long enough for the math to turn lethal while only making the math lethal by committing enough fragile bodies to feed the activation. It is a deliberate inversion of how aggression usually works in blue, where the threat is tempo or evasion. Here the threat is patience plus arithmetic, the kind of mill engine that does nothing early and ends the game late if it is left alone. The recurring problem for any deck like this is that it asks an opponent to lose to a clock they can see coming and a board they can ignore; the cards that punish it are the ones that pressure life total fast enough to make the slow plan irrelevant.

Doorkeeper (ima)
IMA · #53common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender 2 generic manaBlue mana, Tap: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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