Skip to content
Moxonomy

Foriysian Brigade

Creature — Human Soldier3 generic manaWhite mana

Built on a quiet truth of combat math: in a world where attackers usually come one creature to one blocker, a body that intercepts two of them at once changes the arithmetic of an alpha strike. The four toughness is what makes the multi-block clause pay off. A 2/4 can step in front of a pair of small attackers, soak both swings without dying, and keep doing it next combat, taxing a wide board far beyond what its mana value suggests. Its two power means damage prevention is the real value, not removal: those two points can finish a single two-toughness attacker, or split across a pair to trim two one-toughness bodies, but mostly it gates an attack and resets to do it again the following combat. The design lives in white's oldest job, which is to make attacking through a fortified position a losing proposition. Where a Wall sits and waits without ever swinging, this is a real creature that simply offers an extra defensive lane, the difference between holding ground and trading it away one body at a time. Its limit is the lack of reach: fliers fly over it entirely. A lone oversized ground creature it can still legally block to stop the attack (absent trample), even if it dies doing so; what it cannot do is be in two places against an aerial assault. Read it as a counter to the philosophy of going wide, a stat line tuned to make two attackers' worth of pressure stall in front of a single blocker.

Foriysian Brigade (wth)
WTH · #14uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil:
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can block an additional creature each combat.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Quick navigation
move selectesc close