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Edgar, King of Figaro

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer Noble4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The interesting half of this card is the keyword nobody in Magic had ever needed before it. Coin flips have lived in Magic's fringe since the earliest sets, a variance mechanic red tolerated and blue never touched: Krark's Thumb let you flip twice and choose, Fiery Gambit dared you to keep calling it. The Two-Headed Coin does something different in kind. It does not improve your odds; it deletes them, converting the first flip of every turn into a guaranteed win rather than a fifty-fifty. That turns a class of gimmick cards built around the gamble into deterministic engines, which is a strange thing to hand to blue, historically the color that hates leaving anything to chance and would rather counter the spell than roll for it. The enters trigger is the more conventional payoff, rewarding an artifact-dense board with a burst of cards, and it points the build toward the same place the coin keyword does: a deck stuffed with artifacts and with the handful of flip cards that suddenly read as pure upside. The tension in the design is that these two halves want slightly different shells (one wants raw artifact count, the other wants coin payoffs to abuse), and reconciling them is the deckbuilding problem the card poses. The body, sturdy but not threatening, is content to sit back and let both engines run.

Edgar, King of Figaro (fin)
FIN · #436rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.25
Foil: $6.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

When Edgar enters, draw a card for each artifact you control. Two-Headed Coin — The first time you flip one or more coins each turn, those coins come up heads and you win those flips.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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