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Hired Hexblade

Creature — Elf Warlock1 generic manaBlack mana

A conditional card-draw creature whose condition keys off a payment method rather than a spell type or a death trigger, which is an unusual place to put the wrinkle. The 2/2 body is always there; the draw-and-drain rider only fires if a Treasure paid for it, so the card is only as good as your gold production and it retroactively upgrades every Treasure-maker in a deck without any of them knowing it exists. Cast it off two lands and it is a plain bear. Cast it with a cracked Treasure in the mix and it functions as a conditional Phyrexian Rager: a one-shot cantrip attached to a body, buying a card for a point of life the same way black card-draw has always priced the exchange. The life loss keys the reward back to black's oldest bargain, cards for life, and keeps the ETB from being pure upside. What makes the design worth a second look is the way it turns Treasure from pure fixing into a resource with a hidden secondary use: the token you were going to spend on mana might be worth more spent on a card. It is a payoff dressed as a creature, built for an era when Treasure tokens had spread across every color and the question of what else those tokens could buy was suddenly worth asking.

Hired Hexblade (afr)
AFR · #109common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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