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Iguana Parrot

Creature — Lizard Bird Pirate2 generic manaBlue mana

Three keywords stacked on a 2/2 for three mana is a lot of text for a common-tier body, and the interesting part is how they cover for each other's weaknesses. Flying and vigilance make it a clock that never has to stop pressing, attacking and still holding back a blocker, which matters more on a small evasive body than on a fat one that would win any race anyway. Prowess does the compounding work: a 2/2 that grows every time you cast a noncreature spell rewards a deck built on cheap interaction and cantrips, so the flier that looks like it dies to a stiff breeze can be swinging for four or five in a hand full of spells. The design tension is between the ceiling and the floor. Left alone with an empty hand it does exactly what a 2/2 flier does; loaded into a shell that spends the turn casting instants and sorceries, the growth stacks while vigilance keeps it alive on the crackback. The name and the trio of creature types point at a crossover treatment rather than a straight-faced set staple, but the ability package is a coherent piece of tempo design: an evasive prowess threat that wants to be the beneficiary of a busy noncreature turn.

Iguana Parrot (tla)
TLA · #56common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, vigilance Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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