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Hero of the Games

Creature — Human Soldier2 generic manaRed mana

Most heroic-style creatures reward being targeted with a personal buff or a defensive shield; this one converts each targeting spell into a team-wide anthem, spreading +1/+0 across the whole board rather than growing a single threat. That is a stranger design brief than it sounds, and it flips the incentive entirely: the anthem wants a wide board underneath it, so the trigger scales with how many attackers are already in play, not with anything the targeting spell does. The 3/2 body is fragile enough that the spell you point at it is frequently doing double duty, keeping this creature alive while firing the anthem in the same breath. The ability cares only that the spell targets this creature, never what the spell accomplishes, which is the seam a go-wide deck exploits: a cheap protection spell, a bounce, even a removal spell aimed at your own creature all count, each one doing its stated job while quietly adding a lethal increment across the team. Because the trigger resolves on its own, it typically settles the anthem onto the board before the targeting spell that summoned it has even done its work, so chaining several cheap spells in one turn stacks buff after buff. It belongs to a long red tradition of go-wide aggression that wins on a single overloaded attack step, using a modest board and a fistful of cheap spells to manufacture a fatal one.

Hero of the Games (thb)
THB · #137common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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