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Hardened Escort

Creature — Human Soldier2 generic manaWhite mana

The 2/4 body is the tell. This is a defensive stat line stapled to an aggressive trigger, and the mismatch is the whole design: a wall-shaped creature that only pays off when it swings. On attack, it hands another creature you control (never itself; the trigger reads "another target creature") +1/+0 and indestructible until end of turn. The buff is lopsided by construction, and deliberately so: the +1/+0 is a rounding error, but the indestructible clause is the load-bearing half. It turns a favorable-but-risky attack into a free one, walks a key threat past a bigger blocker, and blanks any "destroy" removal an opponent holds up during combat. The four toughness is what lets the escort survive the blockers it runs into and swing again next turn, doing the same work on a loop. That repeatability is the archetype it serves: the go-wide white deck that wants a creature capable of both holding the fort early and shepherding a lethal turn later, without ever changing what's in play or asking to be the thing protected. It is a support piece from the ground up, always the one doing the escorting, never the escorted.

Hardened Escort (dsk)
DSK · #16common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Legalities

Format Status

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