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Malamet War Scribe

Creature — Cat Warrior3 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

An anthem stapled to a body, but the anthem fires once and then evaporates. The trick is that the pump lands the instant the creature resolves, before your combat step, which turns a one-shot buff into a scripted alpha-strike enabler for the board you already have. Because the trigger reads "creatures you control," it hits the 4/3 too, though without haste the Scribe cannot join the swing the turn it arrives; the boost goes to the attackers already in play. That is the whole shape of the design: you flood the table cheaply first, then drop this to make every existing attacker swing two bigger and one tougher. The +1 toughness matters more than the number reads, nudging your team past the blockers and burn that would otherwise trade down and letting the math resolve in your favor. Because the effect is temporary, it plays best on the turn you plan to attack rather than banked for a future board state, rewarding a commitment to numbers before it ever hits the stack rather than holding creatures back. This is a go-wide payoff for a white creature deck that has already spent its early turns on width: a burst of lethal arithmetic that asks you to have the board first. Cast it into a stalled ground with nothing developed and it is closer to a delayed combat trick riding a below-rate five-drop.

Malamet War Scribe (lci)
LCI · #21uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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