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Nacatl War-Pride

Creature — Cat Warrior3 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaGreen mana

The lure-and-clone mechanic packs an entire battle into one attack step. The first clause forces the defending player to commit exactly one blocker, which reads as a tax until you reach the second: every creature the defender controls, including that lone forced blocker, spawns a tapped, attacking copy. The result is an attack that scales with the opponent's own board, so the wider their defense, the more War-Prides come crashing in. Each token also carries the must-be-blocked-by-one clause, which means a defender with five creatures suddenly faces a wave of new attackers, each demanding a separate blocker: a math problem with no clean solution. The copies are exiled at the next end step, so this is a one-turn windfall rather than a permanent army; the design pays for its explosive output with impermanence and a vulnerability between attacks, when the body is just a 3/3 for six. What makes the card tick is the feedback loop between its two clauses: punishing an opponent for having blockers by turning each into a fresh threat is a far stranger and more aggressive bargain than a vanilla green fatty, and the wider the board it attacks into, the more lopsided the exchange becomes.

Nacatl War-Pride (psal)
PSAL · #L38uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $1.49
Foil: $19.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature must be blocked by exactly one creature if able. Whenever this creature attacks, create X tokens that are copies of it and that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of creatures defending player controls. Exile the tokens at the beginning of the next end step.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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