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Ironclad Slayer

Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaWhite mana

An Aura carries a vulnerability that Equipment does not: when the creature it enchants dies, the Aura goes to the graveyard with it, while Equipment simply detaches and waits on the battlefield for a new bearer. This warrior is white's patient answer to that asymmetry, a 3/2 that recovers a fallen Aura (or, less often, an Equipment that has somehow ended up in the yard) back to your hand on the way down. Because the retrieval goes to hand rather than the battlefield, redeployment costs you the full recast: an Aura has to be cast again targeting a fresh creature, exposing it to spot removal a second time on the way back. The recursion is one-shot per cast and gated behind the creature entering, which keeps it from spinning into an engine on its own while still rewarding a deck built around a small stable of high-value attachments. The body is a serviceable carrier for whatever it just returned, letting you recast and re-suit on the same board state. It sits in a quiet tradition of white creatures that treat the graveyard as a staging area rather than a resource to plunder: not reanimation, just the disciplined recovery of pieces an aggressive or hatebear-leaning deck cannot afford to lose for good.

Ironclad Slayer (sir)
SIR · #35uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may return target Aura or Equipment card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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