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Everdawn Champion

Creature — Human Soldier1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

A 2/2 body for three mana looks unremarkable until you account for what the damage-prevention clause does to combat math: it never dies in combat. Stand it in front of any attacker, no matter how large, and it walks away without a scratch. Gang-block it with three creatures and the outcome is the same: all combat damage headed its way is prevented, so it survives untouched while every blocker in range of its two power that it can trade with dies for free. It will not always kill what it blocks (two power is two power, and a 4/4 shrugs it off), but it always survives the exchange. On the attack the asymmetry holds: chump it and lose the chumps, or take two. This is a different kind of durability than a counter or a toughness pump. The prevention shield only covers combat, which is precisely the gap the card is priced around: burn, fight effects, pingers, and any noncombat removal all resolve cleanly, and a well-placed instant erases it in the very combat step it was winning. The lineage is the unkillable-in-combat blocker that white and green have circled for decades, the body that turns a combat exchange one-sided while leaving the door wide open elsewhere. The double-white pip and the plain stat line are the toll for an ability that, in pure combat arithmetic, never loses the fight it chooses to stand in.

Everdawn Champion (rix)
RIX · #6uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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