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Hraesvelgr of the First Brood

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon4 generic manaBlue mana

Blue rarely gets to close games with an evasive beater, so when it does, the design usually attaches a payoff that turns the body into an engine. Here that payoff is a spellslinger's dividend: every noncreature spell you cast hands a creature +1/+0 and makes it unblockable for the turn, and the trigger fires on the dragon itself entering as well. That structure quietly redirects the reward. The +1/+0 is small enough that it wants to sit on the biggest attacker you already have, and the unblockable clause is the real prize, so this is a Voltron enabler wearing a token-anthem's clothes: point the buff at one threat, cast a couple of cheap spells, and the game ends through an empty board. The 5/5 flier can attack and still be back to defend, and ward keeps it from being answered for free, which matters when the whole plan routes damage through a single unblocked creature. The tension worth naming is that the ability rewards a deck full of cantrips and interaction, the exact spells a control shell wants, but the payoff is aggressive: it wants a durdling blue deck to name a wincon and then force it through. Most blue engine dragons pay you in cards; this one converts those cards into lethal on one creature, a sharper commitment than the deceptively modest buff lets on.

Hraesvelgr of the First Brood (fic)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, vigilance, ward 2 generic mana Shiva's Aid — When Hraesvelgr enters and whenever you cast a noncreature spell, target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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