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Fiend Binder

Creature — Human Soldier3 generic manaWhite mana

The attack trigger is built to clear a path rather than win a race. Tapping a defender each combat means a single attacker can keep one blocker off the board indefinitely, turning this 3/2 into a recurring source of pseudo-evasion: the creature that would have eaten this one is simply not there when damage is dealt. Critically, the tap targets a creature the defending player controls, and it fires on attack, so the relevant blocker is gone before blocks are even declared, with no way for the opponent to respond by reassigning it. That distinguishes it from the Falter-style effects that tap or remove a single blocker as a one-time spell; this is a renewable version stapled to a body that has to survive combat to keep doing its job. The weakness is in that toughness: a 3/2 trades down to almost anything, so the engine only persists as long as the binder stays out of harm's way, which is exactly why the design hands it the tool to remove the creature most likely to harm it. It sits with white's small aggressive creatures whose value is in dictating combat math rather than overpowering it, the kind of soldier that makes a board of mediocre attackers behave like an unblockable one.

Fiend Binder (emn)
EMN · #26common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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