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Elder Arthur Maxson

Legendary Creature — Human Knight1 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana

The static anthem here is quietly one of the more elegant ways to make a token deck scale. Training normally lives on individual creatures, tuning each one to fight upward when it swings alongside something bigger. Granting it to every token you control inverts the usual math: instead of building around a single trained attacker, you flood the board and let the whole army compound, each token pumping itself the moment it attacks beside a heavier body. The 4/2 frame does exactly that job, a top-end power the tokens can chain off. What keeps the package from being purely offensive is the Blind Betrayal clause, which turns the aristocrats' most disposable resource (a spare token, a chump about to die anyway) into a repeatable indestructibility switch. That interaction is the real seam: the same board state that fuels the training payoff also feeds the sacrifice cost, so wraths and targeted removal collide with a creature you can protect at instant speed for the price of fodder you were happy to lose. The design threads token-swarm, go-wide counters, and a sacrifice engine through a single three-mana body, and the sacrifice-for-indestructible line is what stops the 2 toughness from being a liability the way it would be on any other undersized aggressive creature.

Elder Arthur Maxson (pip)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Creature tokens you control have training. (Whenever a creature token you control attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on that token.) Blind Betrayal — Sacrifice another creature: Elder Arthur Maxson gains indestructible until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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