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Iron Man, Tony Stark

Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Hero3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Two engines stacked in one legendary shell, and their interaction is what carries the card. The static anthem (attacking creatures you control get +1/+0) reads like a modest go-wide payoff until you notice what feeds the board: every red spell you cast spins off a flying Robot Hero. So the anthem is not decorating a fixed team; it is buffing a swarm that grows in step with your spell count, and each new token arrives already able to fly over ground defense. The two abilities are load-bearing on each other. Without the token generator, the anthem is a small edge on whatever creatures you happened to draw; without the anthem, the tokens are 2/1 fliers that trade down. Together they form a red aggro loop where casting spells is not a detour from attacking but the way you widen the attack. A 3/3 flier for five mana is an unremarkable body on its own; the point is that the body is the last thing you are meant to look at. What lifts this past a beater is that it converts a red deck's natural churn (burn, rituals, cheap threats, anything red) into a standing supply of evasive attackers, then hands each of them a bonus for swinging. It is a payoff that scales with how far you are willing to lean into red.

Iron Man, Tony Stark (msc)
MSC · #851rare
Pricing
Normal: $5.96
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0. Whenever you cast a red spell, create a 2/1 colorless Robot Hero artifact creature token with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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