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Florian, Voldaren Scion

Legendary Creature — Vampire Noble1 generic manaBlack manaRed mana

Rakdos vampires have always wanted to convert damage into resources, but most attempts did it flatly: a fixed draw off an attack, a life-payment for cards regardless of how the game is going. Florian scales the dig directly to how much life your opponents lost this turn, from any source. Chip in for three and you look three deep for one card; land a haymaker or a burn spell in a multiplayer pod and the reach balloons. The exile-one-play-the-rest-to-the-bottom clause is what keeps the engine from spinning out: you never bank a card, you get exactly one at the end of the digging, and the window to play it closes at end of turn. That is the difference between a raw advantage engine and a tempo one; the value is real but perishable, so pressure now is worth more than pressure later. The 3/3 first-strike body makes the incentive physical: it wants to attack, it survives the counterattack, and every point it pushes through feeds the next main phase's dig. The design states plainly what Rakdos midrange has always reached for, an engine that rewards the beatdown for being the beatdown.

Florian, Voldaren Scion (pmid)
PMID · #223srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

First strike At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the total amount of life your opponents lost this turn. Exile one of those cards and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may play the exiled card this turn.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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