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Hold the Perimeter

Conspiracy

Conspiracy as a card type lives entirely before the first turn: you reveal it from the command zone and the game opens on terms you helped set. Most draft-matters conspiracies tinker with deckbuilding; this one tinkers with the board itself, asymmetrically. You get a 1/2 defender to plant in front of your life total; everyone else gets a 1/1 Goblin that can't block. The shape is the whole argument. You are paying for a wall while handing every opponent a creature that can only ever commit forward, which sounds like charity until you read the stat lines. Your Soldier is a 1/2 that survives a hit from any of the 1/1s you've gifted, and those Goblins can't block, so they can't slow each other's aggression either: the moment one attacks its controller loses no defensive value, since it never had any. The card installs a starting position where you are structurally the defender and every other player is structurally an aggressor, then sharpens it by giving each free token the worst possible stat for a grinding multiplayer game (no blocking) while giving your own wall enough toughness to hold the line. Note the freedom you've handed out, though: those Goblins can swing at anyone, so you are also seeding the table with attackers that turn players against each other. This is pre-game engineering, less a card you cast than a rule you write onto the table before anyone has drawn for turn.

Hold the Perimeter (cn2)
CN2 · #6rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.68
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.) At the beginning of your first upkeep, create a 1/2 white Soldier creature token with defender. At the beginning of each other player's first upkeep, that player creates a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with "This token can't block."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Banned
Vintage
Banned
Commander
Banned
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Banned
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Banned
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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