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Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon2 generic manaRed manaWhite manaBlack mana

The attack trigger is the whole design puzzle, and it rewards a kind of deckbuilding most token strategies actively work against. The two Goblins that arrive with the body are not just chump blockers: they seed the token-diversity count the impulse-draw scales on. Exile a number of cards equal to the number of differently named tokens you control, and every distinct token type is suddenly worth a card off the top. The wrinkle is that word "differently named": two 1/1 Goblins share a name, so a board of nothing but Goblins nets exactly one card no matter how many are milling around. To grow the swing you add a Treasure, a Clue, a Soldier, a Blood; variety, not volume, is the currency. That inverts the instinct of most go-wide builds, which stack copies of one thing. The payoff is gated further: you may play the exiled cards only during a turn you attacked with a commander (which need not be Neriv, and need not connect). The deathtouch and flying on the 4/4 are enabling clauses, not decoration, because the trigger only fires when this card is the one attacking: deathtouch trades up against any blocker willing to take the swing, and flying skates it over a ground stall so the trigger keeps resolving. It is a value engine that insists on combat rather than sitting back, pricing its card advantage in board diversity rather than raw creature count.

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard (tdc)
TDC · #6mythic
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Normal: $0.99
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, deathtouch When Neriv enters, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. Whenever Neriv attacks, exile a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the number of differently named tokens you control. During any turn you attacked with a commander, you may play those cards.
Legalities

Format Status

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