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Olivia's Dragoon

Creature — Vampire Berserker1 generic manaBlack mana

The discard cost reframes what looks like a plain body into a graveyard outlet wearing evasion as a disguise. The flying it buys is almost beside the point: in a deck built around madness, flashback, or any payoff that wants cards in the bin rather than the hand, this Vampire becomes a repeatable, mana-free valve to pitch cards whenever you please. The ability carries no cost beyond the card discarded and no sorcery-speed restriction, so you can trigger a madness card mid-combat, dump a flashback spell before blockers, or empty a clogged hand at instant speed while a spell you dislike is on the stack. That flexibility is exactly the design tension a discard-matters environment lives on: the payoff cards reward you for filling the graveyard, and a creature like this exists to make that easy without asking you to run a worse enabler to do the same job. Read as evasion alone, the rate is unremarkable; read as a sacrifice-free, tap-free discard engine bolted to a two-mana creature you were already glad to cast, it becomes the glue that lets a discard-synergy shell function at all. The flying is the consolation prize for a hand you have already spent, and the reason a berserker with pedestrian stats earns a slot in a graveyard deck that would otherwise pass on it.

Olivia's Dragoon (inr)
INR · #127common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Discard a card: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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