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Happy Hogan, Bodyguard

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor5 generic manaBlue mana

Blue's tempo tools have always fought a tension: the cleanest way to buy time is to answer a threat and leave it answered, but the color's philosophy steers it toward bounce and delay rather than permanent removal. This entry-trigger sits squarely in that tradition without repeating it. The target does not go to hand (no free recast next turn) and does not go to the top (no draw-step whiplash); it goes second from the top or to the bottom, at the owner's choice. Second-from-top is the tighter of the two: the opponent still draws whatever currently sits on top, then draws the returned creature the turn after, so it costs no cards but buys you two turns of runway before that threat is back in play. Bottom-of-library is the deeper answer, burying a commander or a rebuilt threat under an entire deck, but it also lets the owner draw fresh through the top of their pile immediately. That the choice belongs to the opponent, not the caster, is the restraint the effect is built around: you always concede the worse-for-them outcome, never the best-for-you one. The vigilant body means the trigger arrives on a blocker that still attacks, so the tempo you gain going in is not surrendered on the crack-back. It reads as a control-leaning value creature rather than a finisher: a reusable delay engine for any deck that can flicker or recur its enters trigger.

Happy Hogan, Bodyguard (msc)
MSC · #622uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance When Happy Hogan enters, the owner of target creature an opponent controls puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
N/A
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