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Noble Quarry

Enchantment Creature — Unicorn2 generic manaGreen mana

A lure stapled to a unicorn, and bestow is what keeps the staple from ever becoming a liability. The core function (forcing every able blocker to gang up on the attacker carrying it) is one of green's oldest combat patterns, capable of turning a deathtoucher or a trampler into a one-card blowout when it swings in. Traditional lure effects have always shared a weakness: they are sorcery-speed Auras with no fallback, so a lure drawn without a creature worth aiming it at is a dead card in hand. Bestow patches that fragility directly. Cast it cheaply for a small green body that draws its own blockers, or pay the bestow cost to wrap it around a real threat and keep the +1/+1 attached to a creature that survives the swing. The unicorn is never stranded, because when the host dies the enchantment falls off and stands back up as a creature on the battlefield, still threatening to lure on its own future attacks. That self-rescue is why the effect lives on a permanent rather than an instant: a lure that returns as a body is a lure you can afford to throw into bad combat math. The compulsory-block clause is one-directional by design, tied to the attack step rather than defense, so the bestow shell carries the weight here: it keeps an aggressive-only effect from ever being a wasted draw.

Noble Quarry (bng)
BNG · #130uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $1.00
Oracle Text

Rules text

Bestow 5 generic manaGreen mana (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) All creatures able to block this creature or enchanted creature do so. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Legalities

Format Status

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