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Joraga Bard

Creature — Elf Rogue Bard Ally3 generic manaGreen mana

The 1/4 body tells you this was built to block, not race, and the ability reinforces it: a stream of vigilance triggers that fire every time an Ally walks onto the battlefield, letting your team attack without dropping their guard on defense. That is the quiet tension in the design. Vigilance on a wide Ally board normally means you only get the keyword while creatures are entering, but a deck stacked with Allies turns each new arrival into another grant, so the effect compounds the more committed you are to the tribe. Outside that shell the trigger does almost nothing, which is exactly the point: this is a tribal payoff that taxes you for not playing the deck it was made for. As an Ally enabler it sits in the support tier rather than the headline tier, the kind of rate that fills out a tribe's curve without ever being the reason the deck exists. The body matters as much as the text here; four toughness on the back of a vigilance engine means the squad can swing in and still wall the crackback, which is the whole job a tall, narrow defender like this is asked to do.

Joraga Bard (zen)
ZEN · #166common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.66
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, you may have Ally creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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