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Glorfindel, Dauntless Rescuer

Legendary Creature — Elf Noble2 generic manaGreen mana

An elf-lord who cannot be ignored, translated into a combat threat that rewrites the blocking step every time you filter a draw. Each scry pumps the 3/2 to a 4/3 for the turn and forces one of two combat rules onto the defender: either the lure clause that demands he be blocked if able, or the anti-gang clause that caps him at a single blocker. Those two modes pull in opposite directions, and picking between them per scry is where the card actually lives. When the opponent has nothing to spare, force a bad chump; when the board is clogged with defenders, deny the gang-block so a lone blocker eats the hit alone. A deck that scries several times in a turn stacks the pumps and re-picks the mode as the position shifts, so a modest attacker becomes a genuine evasive clock. The catch is the fuel: scry is not a resource green natively produces, so the card leans on blue splashes, artifacts, or lands to generate the trigger it needs to function at all. Built around a steady scry source, though, the payoff is a repeatable pressure engine, and that repeatability is what makes the constraint worth paying: he is not a one-turn combat trick but a recurring problem the defender has to solve every attack.

Glorfindel, Dauntless Rescuer (ltr)
LTR · #622uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.34
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you scry, choose one and Glorfindel gets +1/+1 until end of turn. • Glorfindel must be blocked this turn if able. • Glorfindel can't be blocked by more than one creature each combat this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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