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Mardu Siegebreaker

Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaRed manaWhite manaBlack mana

The blink-your-own-creature template usually pays out in enters-the-battlefield triggers: flicker a value creature, catch the ETB again, hand the body back. This inverts the payoff. The exile clause here doesn't chase a re-entry trigger at all; it feeds the attack ability, which stamps out a tapped attacking copy of the exiled creature every combat, one per opponent. What you exile becomes ammunition for an offensive rather than a value engine on the defensive, and the sacrifice-at-end-step clause means those copies exist only to swing that turn, closing the loophole where a copied creature would otherwise stick around as a free permanent. Deathtouch and haste on the 4/4 body make the front end a threat the turn it lands, but the interesting tension is what you feed it: a large attacker doubles your board presence in the combat step, and against multiple opponents each swing spawns a copy per player, which is where the ceiling lives. Worth noting the limit built into that copy: the tokens are created already attacking, not declared as attackers, so they never trip the exiled creature's own "whenever it attacks" abilities. You get the printed body and static effects, not a fresh chain of combat triggers. The whole package also rides on fragility. The exile caps at one target and returns whatever you hid the instant the Siegebreaker dies, so the payoff depends entirely on keeping a hasty deathtouch body alive through combat.

Mardu Siegebreaker (tdm)
TDM · #206rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.44
Foil: $0.47
Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch, haste When this creature enters, exile up to one other target creature you control until this creature leaves the battlefield. Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent, create a tapped token that's a copy of the exiled card attacking that opponent. At the beginning of your next end step, sacrifice those tokens.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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