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Nacatl Hunt-Pride

Creature — Cat Warrior5 generic manaWhite mana

The two activated abilities want different mana, and that splash of red and green on an otherwise mono-white body is the entire pitch: this is white deciding it can play traffic cop in a Naya shell. The red ability strips a blocker, the green one drafts a creature into combat it would rather sit out, and together they let an attacking team steer combat toward the trades it wants. That is unusual coverage for a single card, because forcing a block and forbidding one are normally opposite-color effects living in opposite decks. Here they tap the same Cat to do both, which means each turn is a binary choice: open a lane or close one, never both. The tap symbol is the real governor on the power, and it interacts pointedly with the vigilance: ordinarily vigilance buys a body the right to attack and still hold back as a blocker, but using either ability spends the tap that vigilance was supposed to protect. So the keyword does not keep this creature relevant on defense; what it actually does is let the Cat swing and still manipulate blockers in the same turn, trading its defensive presence for combat control rather than getting both. As a six-mana 5/4, the rate asks you to already be in a board-stalled aggressive game where one forced block or one cleared lane decides the race; outside that texture it is a slow attacker with a niche toolkit bolted on.

Nacatl Hunt-Pride (ddh)
DDH · #20uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance Red mana, Tap: Target creature can't block this turn. Green mana, Tap: Target creature blocks this turn if able.
Legalities

Format Status

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