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Kor Castigator

Creature — Kor Wizard Ally1 generic manaWhite mana

A 3/1 for two in white is aggressive shorthand: a body that races, dies to almost anything, and asks you to land hits before the ground stalls. The evasion clause takes that premise and shrinks its target down to a single creature type, the 1/1 tokens spawned by the era's Eldrazi. That is about as narrow as evasion can get and still earn the name: it does nothing against any other blocker, and on a board free of those particular tokens it reads as a vanilla beater. It is a designer's bet on a local metagame, a creature built to punch through one expected wall rather than to threaten the format at large. The Ally tag and Wizard line gesture at tribal payoffs, but the static can't-be-blocked-by clause is the tell: this was printed to give a fast white deck an answer to the specific board the surrounding set was busy creating, a piece of internal counterplay rather than a card with ambitions beyond its home environment. An undercosted, fragile attacker paired with an ability that only matters against one kind of blocker is a card engineered for exactly one room, and it rarely finds a reason to leave the context that produced it.

Kor Castigator (bfz)
BFZ · #35common
Pricing
Normal: $0.02
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked by Eldrazi Scions.
Legalities

Format Status

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