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Hero of Bladehold

Creature — Human Knight2 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The math is the whole point. A single attack turns one card into a three-creature swing: the 3/4 body itself plus two Soldier tokens that arrive already tapped and attacking, with no summoning-sickness window to wait through. Battle cry then pumps every other attacker, so on an otherwise empty board that first attack is seven damage (3 from the Hero, 2 from each buffed token), and it compounds: the next attack spawns two more tokens, and each new card in the curve feeds the team-wide buff again. Where most white aggro finishers ask you to commit a wide board first and then reward it, this card builds the board and the anthem on the same attack, which is why it punishes any opponent who left an attack unanswered. The vulnerability is structural and deliberate: every drop of value is gated behind the attack trigger, so a removal spell at end of turn before combat, or a single blocker willing to trade, strands the entire engine. It does nothing the turn it lands and everything the turn after, a tempo threat that demands you survive to untap. That window (lethal when it connects, inert when it does not) is the price the design pays for stapling a token-maker and a team-wide pump onto one mid-sized body, and it is what keeps the card honest in any deck built to swing wide rather than grind long.

Hero of Bladehold (tdc)
TDC · #119mythic
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Normal: $0.45
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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