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Kruin Striker

Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaRed mana

The reward keys off bodies arriving, not cards spent: every other creature that enters hands this one +1/+0 and trample for the rest of the turn, which means the engine runs on board-flooding speed rather than card quality. That trample rider is the part that matters. A growing 2/1 is unremarkable; a growing 2/1 that starts shoving damage past chump blockers converts a wide draw into a clock the defensive layer cannot absorb, which is exactly where go-wide aggression usually stalls. Because the trigger reads "enters" and not "cast," token generators and recursion feed it as well as cheap one-drops, and the buffs accumulate within a single turn when several creatures or tokens land before you swing. The 1-toughness frame is the cost of all this: any incidental ping, any first-strike blocker, removes the card before its accumulation pays off, so it wants to attack into open boards and resolve its bonuses before the opponent finds a window. This sits with the early-era line of cheap red aggressive enablers that ask you to dump your hand and turn raw creature count into damage faster than the trades can catch up, a payoff that wants volume around it and offers little when the board goes quiet.

Kruin Striker (avr)
AVR · #143common
Pricing
Normal: $0.02
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gets +1/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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

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