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Otter-Penguin

Creature — Otter Bird1 generic manaBlue mana

The trigger is the entire pitch: hit your second draw of the turn and a plain 2/1 swings as a 3/3 that nobody can stop. That condition is the deliberate cost separating it from an ordinary unblockable two-drop. On a stock one-draw turn the ability sits idle; it demands a shell that reliably pushes a second card into your hand before combat, whether through cheap cantrips, an extra-draw enchantment, or an artifact that fires on a spell cast. Pay that deckbuilding tax and the reward is a repeatable evasive clock. The extra toughness matters less against blockers (the same trigger already makes the creature unblockable) than against removal: a boosted body dodges the burn and pings that would otherwise erase a 2/1 mid-attack. It belongs to a familiar strain of blue reward pieces, the ones that ask you to accelerate your card flow and then hand you a combat edge for having done it. Timing is where the payoff lives. Both the buff and the unblockable clause last only until end of turn, so the second draw has to land before you attack to translate into damage. That draw need not come from a main-phase cantrip: an instant-speed draw spell cast in the beginning of combat, before blockers, arms the creature just as well. Trigger it after combat and the ability still resolves, but the boost decorates a creature that has nothing left to attack into.

Otter-Penguin (tla)
TLA · #67common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, this creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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