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Freya Crescent

Legendary Creature — Rat KnightRed mana

The keyword here is pulling double duty as a flavor pun: Jump grants flying, and the tap ability exists only to pay for Equipment. Freya is a Dragoon in her source material, and the design splits that class fantasy into two mechanically distinct handles that both feed the same plan. The flying is a one-way window: it comes online only during your own turn, so this is an attacker's evasion, not a blocker's insurance. On defense the body is a plain 1/1, the restriction that keeps a one-mana evasive threat honest; there is nothing here to hide behind. The mana ability is stranger and more specific. It produces red that can only cast an Equipment spell or pay an equip cost, turning Freya into a slow Equipment ritual that also happens to be a legal target to strap the gear onto. That closes a loop most one-drop equipment carriers leave open: the creature that wants the sword is also the creature that helps pay for it, freeing your land drops for the rest of the curve. It is a tight little engine built around a single archetype rather than a generically good body, a narrow, self-referential design that pays off being built toward instead of splashed.

Freya Crescent (fin)
FIN · #138uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Jump — During your turn, Freya Crescent has flying. Tap: Add Red mana. Spend this mana only to cast an Equipment spell or activate an equip ability.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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