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Kessig Forgemaster // Flameheart Werewolf

Creature — Human Shaman Werewolf // Creature — Werewolf

The whole design lives in the combat rider, not the flip. Most werewolves are quiet bodies that swell on the back face and coast until a board stall breaks; this one deals damage every time it blocks or gets blocked, scaling from 1 to 2 across the transform. That turns it into a creature that survives ground fights it has no business surviving: the front-face 2/1 pings whatever it engages before damage, so it kills an X/1 outright and walks away clean, and the back face picks off small attackers as it absorbs them. The flip conditions follow the tribe's usual contract in both directions: a silent turn hands you the larger Flameheart Werewolf, and a heavy spell turn snaps it back. So the side you want is the side you earn by going quiet, then hold by staying quiet, which is the tension every werewolf lives inside. Here it compounds in a stall, because the creature actively wants combat to keep happening: every block is another free point, and the back-side ping clears most of the small bodies a deck might chump with. It rewards a plan built on falling silent for a turn, not to outrace the table but to dig in and grind the ground one absorbed creature at a time.

Kessig Forgemaster // Flameheart Werewolf (soi)
SOI · #169uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.64
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature. At the beginning of each upkeep, if no spells were cast last turn, transform this creature. // Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, this creature deals 2 damage to that creature. At the beginning of each upkeep, if a player cast two or more spells last turn, transform this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
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