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Fire Nation Raider

Creature — Human Soldier3 generic manaRed mana

The Raid template always sells the same trade: pay in tempo up front, get paid back if the aggression showed up. Here the payoff is a Clue, the softest and most patient reward the mechanic offers, and that choice is deliberate. A 4/2 body is glass, built to swing and die, so the card leans into the beatdown plan rather than hedging against it. The trigger only asks that you attacked this turn, not that anything connected, so the Clue arrives on the back of commitment, not damage. What makes routing the payoff through an artifact rather than a raw card the honest version of the design: a Raid trigger that drew outright would reward one act of aggression twice, immediately and for free. The Clue defers the second card behind a two-mana sacrifice, so the reward is banked rather than handed over, cashable later when the board stalls or you have idle mana to spare. For a color that historically empties its hand and runs dry, that stored draw is the whole point. The 4/2 will usually trade in combat, but the Clue outlives it: a second, deferred act of card advantage that keeps the four-drop from being a body-only investment. Pairing Clue with Raid is a cleaner answer to red's card-advantage problem than most of what the color has been handed, precisely because it makes the aggressive player earn the refill instead of gifting it.

Fire Nation Raider (tla)
TLA · #135common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

Raid — When this creature enters, if you attacked this turn, create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
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COMPETITIVEBRAWL
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TLR
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