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Nightveil Predator

Creature — VampireBlue manaBlue manaBlack manaBlack mana

Three keywords stacked on one 3/3 body, and they don't repeat by accident: flying gets it past the ground, deathtouch makes every block a losing trade, and hexproof slams the door on the most common answer to an evasive threat this size, which is targeted removal. Hexproof narrows the opponent's toolbox rather than emptying it: a spot-removal spell can't touch it, a fight spell can't target it, but a damage-based sweeper, a gang-block, and an edict that forces a sacrifice all still work, and the small body dies to any of them. That's the tension the card lives inside. On a clear board it chips for three a turn while deathtouch holds the air against anything that tries to race it back, and the value is measured in turns of unanswered damage rather than one decisive swing. The cost is the constraint that pays for it. Two blue and two black with no generic mana is a stiff color requirement, the kind that locks the card to dedicated two-color builds rather than splashes. It belongs to the family of evasive, hard-to-target threats that grind games out through repeated attacks: the reward for surviving the removal that can't reach it is a clock, not an invulnerable one.

Nightveil Predator (rvr)
RVR · #206uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.38
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, deathtouch Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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