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Kasimir the Lone Wolf

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior4 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

Six mana for a 5/3 with no abilities, no evasion, and no relevant typing beyond Human Warrior: the stat line tells you exactly what kind of design culture made it. This is a snapshot of an era when vanilla legends were a legitimate slot. Wizards was building a fantasy roster, and a named hero with a flavorful color pair and an above-curve power stat counted as a finished design. The legendary supertype in 1994 meant something closer to "named character from the source fiction" than "build-around for a singleton format." The math is unkind by modern standards (no protection, three toughness that dies to almost any burn spell printed since), and the color identity is the awkward one for an attacker: white-blue has historically wanted its expensive creatures to lock the board or close a game, not chip in for five and trade. The design assumption is the artifact here: a legendary creature could exist purely as a face and a curve-topper, with the rules text left blank because the name was supposed to do the work. Every white-blue legend since has been written against the expectation that the slot needs to justify its cost with an ability; this one predates the expectation.

Kasimir the Lone Wolf (leg)
LEG · #237uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $2.52
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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
Legal
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
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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