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Geist Trappers

Creature — Human Warrior4 generic manaGreen mana

Reach is one of the most situational keywords in the game: it answers fliers and does nothing else, so the cards that grant it tend to be hedges nobody wants in the maindeck. Soulbond is the lever that makes that hedge worth a card slot here. Pairing distributes reach to two bodies at once, and crucially it lets the keyword arrive after the fact: when this enters, you can bond it to whatever you already control, and the moment something with evasion shows up across the table, you have a second blocker that suddenly reaches into the air. The 3/5 body is built to survive the trade it sets up, soaking up an attacker while the pair grounds it. There is a catch, though, because the bond is conditional on control of both creatures: a removal spell on either half strips the reach from the other, so the answer doubles as the off-switch. It is a clean expression of the design idea behind the soulbond cycle, which took narrow utility abilities and made them mobile, shared, and reactive rather than stapled to a single creature. The effect itself is modest, but the mechanism (a defensive keyword you can deploy on demand to a creature that was never going to have it) is a tidier solution to green's perennial flier problem than another vanilla wall.

Geist Trappers (avr)
AVR · #179common
Pricing
Normal: $0.04
Foil: $0.14
Oracle Text

Rules text

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures have reach.
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
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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