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Elusive Spellfist

Creature — Human Monk1 generic manaBlue mana

Three toughness is the load-bearing number here, and it explains everything about how this creature is meant to be built. The evasion and the growth are both rented one spell at a time, useless on an empty turn and lethal on a full one, so the body needs to survive the turns when the engine isn't spinning. A wall that blocks all day is exactly what you want in the seat behind a deck of cantrips, cheap removal, and burn: something that trades poorly on defense but converts instantly once the noncreature spells start flowing. The trigger keys off casting, not resolution, and it stacks, so a turn with two or three spells makes the Monk both larger and unblockable, a body the opponent would happily chump-trade turned into damage they cannot stop. The unblockable clause is the half that matters more than the power bump, since evasion is what makes a small, spell-fueled clock lethal rather than merely inconvenient. This is spells-matter aggro in its most honest form: the payoff scales with spell density rather than any single big finisher, and the deckbuilding question it asks is not "what's my bomb" but "how many cheap spells can I chain in a turn." Empty hand, and it's a defensive stopgap; full hand, and it walks past the board for the last few points.

Elusive Spellfist (ima)
IMA · #54common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
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

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