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Night Market Guard

Artifact Creature — Construct3 generic mana

Multiblock inverts the arithmetic aggressive decks lean on: one body holding the door against two attackers instead of the usual one-for-one trade. The 3/1 frame commits hard to that single job. Toughness of 1 means it folds to almost anything that swings back, and 3 power spreads awkwardly across two blocks: it can split into a lethal 2-and-1 against a pair of small attackers, or throw all three at a single larger threat and leave the other unharmed. What it cannot do is reliably kill both of anything worth attacking with. The card is not built to win combats; it is built to stall the ground for a turn, intercepting two attacks at once and stopping the damage from both (trample aside) for the single combat step it survives. As a colorless Construct, it offers that stall to any pile regardless of color identity, which is the whole reason an effect like this lives on an artifact rather than inside a color: green or white usually buys multiblock with a bigger, stickier body, while this version trades durability for the freedom to be cast anywhere. The fragility is the price of the universality. A one-toughness blocker dies to trample spillover, to any sweeper, to a single point of incidental damage, so it rarely survives to repeat the trick. It asks for exactly one good combat step and accepts that a second is unlikely.

Night Market Guard (bbd)
BBD · #242common
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Normal: $0.10
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can block an additional creature each combat.
Legalities

Format Status

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