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Guildsworn Prowler

Creature — Tiefling Rogue Assassin1 generic manaBlack mana

The exclusion clause reads backwards from where the pressure actually lands. Deathtouch already turns a 2/1 into an attacker every blocker fears, since the smallest touch of damage kills the biggest thing across the table. What the death trigger does is refuse to let removal be clean: the card draws whenever it dies and it wasn't in the act of blocking, which covers nearly every way an opponent will kill it. Spot removal on your turn, a sacrifice edict, an unfavorable trade while it is the aggressor: all of it replaces the card. Because the condition keys off blocking specifically, an attacking Prowler that trades with a blocker does both jobs at once, killing the creature with deathtouch and drawing on the way to the graveyard. The only line that denies the draw is holding it back on defense and losing it there, which is exactly the least threatening thing it can be doing. The design carries a quiet coercion: the body demands to attack, and the trigger pays it for attacking by making removal a wash. It sits in the long lineage of aggressive black two-drops built never to be a dead card late, where deathtouch handles the fatties and the conditional draw handles the sweepers and edicts. Small, but every answer the opponent reaches for while it is on offense costs them a card and hands you one back.

Guildsworn Prowler (clb)
CLB · #130common
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch When this creature dies, if it wasn't blocking, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

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