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Patriot, Young Avenger

Legendary Creature — Human Hero2 generic manaRed or White mana

The design tension here is stranger than the rate suggests: prowess and the equipped anthem pull toward opposite board states. Prowess rewards a spell-dense, low-creature shell where each noncreature cast pumps this single body once it is already in play; the static +1/+0 wants the exact opposite, a wide field of bodies for the buff to lift. Squaring the two is the whole build. You need enough noncreature spells to make prowess matter, enough creatures for the anthem to do work, and (crucially) equipment attached to this Human Hero to switch that anthem on at all. That last condition is what keeps the card from being a plain team-wide lord: the buff is conditional on this creature carrying gear, so a single equipment slot does double duty, arming the 3/2 as a growing threat and turning on the rest of the board at the same time. The hybrid Red or White mana pip is the tell, signaling a card built to sit in either red tempo or white go-wide. The two abilities map onto those halves cleanly: prowess is the red instinct to grow one attacker on the back of your spells, the anthem is the white instinct to raise a team. A 3/2 for three asked to bridge two archetypes that usually want different things, and it only fully delivers on the turn it holds a sword.

Patriot, Young Avenger (msc)
MSC · #570uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) As long as Patriot is equipped, other creatures you control get +1/+0.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
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