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Firefright Mage

Creature — Goblin SpellshaperRed mana

The exception clause carries more design weight than it looks: most evasion-granting effects simply turn off blocking, but this one carves out artifact creatures and red creatures specifically, reading less like a gift to the controller than a statement about what red is allowed to bend. Red can shove a creature past almost anyone, but not past its own kind and not past cold metal. As a Spellshaper, it converts a discarded card and a tap into the effect at instant speed, repeatable turn after turn so long as the hand holds fuel, which is the structural trade that defines the class: a creature body standing in for a spell you keep recasting at the cost of grip. The body is fragile and the discard is real, so the engine asks you to value a fistful of dead cards more highly than the blockers it slips past value their lives. What balances it against a one-shot unblockable spell is the delay: the 1 generic manaRed mana plus a card means every activation has to justify itself, and a Spellshaper drains the hand it depends on. It belongs to the line of red Goblins built to turn a stalled board into a clock, useful precisely when the cards left in hand are worth less than the damage they can buy.

Firefright Mage (plc)
PLC · #99common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.95
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic manaRed mana, Tap, Discard a card: Target creature can't be blocked this turn except by artifact creatures and/or red creatures.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
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Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
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