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Falcon, Joaquin Torres

Legendary Creature — Bird Human Hero2 generic manaWhite mana

Battalion was originally a static payoff: line up three attackers and take a buff that evaporated the moment combat ended. Here the reward is banked instead of borrowed. Each time this white flyer swings alongside two others, the counter stays and you scry, so the aggressive deck's core instruction (commit bodies, send the team) compounds a little more every combat rather than resetting. Flying and lifelink are what make the loop sustainable: evasion keeps him attacking safely, which keeps the counters accruing, and lifelink converts the growing body into a rising life total instead of just a bigger clock. The design deliberately avoids the explosive single turn. There is no combo to assemble, no engine to protect; it is a repetition machine that pays a small dividend for showing up wide, turn after turn. The scry does quiet work in service of that, steering your next draw toward another attacker so you can keep clearing the three-attacker threshold and firing the trigger again. What it asks for is simple and demanding at once: a board that stays wide, and a pilot willing to attack every turn to earn the incremental payoff.

Falcon, Joaquin Torres (msc)
MSC · #593uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.38
Foil: $0.45
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, lifelink Battalion — Whenever Falcon and at least two other creatures attack, put a +1/+1 counter on him and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
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