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Iron Man, Armored Avenger

Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Hero3 generic manaBlue mana

Blue rarely gets to be the counters color, and the wiring here explains the workaround: instead of borrowing green's proliferate, the growth rides in on card draw. Every draw deposits a counter on a target of your choice, which converts any repeatable draw engine into a growth engine without ever touching green's mechanic. That reframing is the whole design, because the second ability keys off "modified," and a counter counts as a modification. So the same draws that build a board of oversized creatures also arm the attack trigger, which hands flying to every other modified attacker. Growth and evasion pull from the same well: your normal draw step swells the team, and the counters doing the swelling are the modifications the alpha strike checks for, so a small flier can lift a ground-bound board into the air in a single swing. The flying it grants is evasion, not immunity: opposing fliers and reach still block, so the payoff is a coordinated air raid rather than an unanswerable one. The modest body is deliberate. This card does not win by being large; it makes other creatures both large and evasive while quietly stacking counters off nothing more than the cards you were going to draw anyway. The real tension is that it asks a color built for interaction and card advantage to instead assemble a wide physical board and convert its natural resource (cards) into a combat resource (counters and flight), a job blue almost never signs up for.

Iron Man, Armored Avenger (msc)
MSC · #33rare
Pricing
Normal: $4.59
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever Iron Man attacks, other attacking modified creatures gain flying until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
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
More formats
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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