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Perimeter Enforcer

Creature — Human Detective1 generic manaWhite mana

A payoff engine dressed as an evasive lifelink body. The reward is deliberately double-tapped: it grows both when another Detective enters and when a Detective you control is turned face up, tying it to two distinct build patterns at once. The first is the wide, go-tall Detective aggregate where each new investigator pumps the flyer while it drains for the difference. The second is the more interesting one: cloak and disguise Detectives enter as face-down 2/2s that later flip, and each of those turn-ups is a separate trigger, so a board that looks static can suddenly balloon through a single unmorph. The pump expires at the end of the turn, which forces the card to earn its size in the same attack step it gains it: this is a swing threat, not a permanent accumulator you develop and forget. That temporary window is precisely what makes flying and lifelink so valuable here, since every fleeting +1/+1 doubles as both a clock in the air and a life cushion on the same swing. As tribal-payoff design, it is a tidy piece of work: a two-mana 1/1 that scales with a mechanic (face-down flipping) most tribes never touch, giving the Detective archetype a growth vector that does not depend on flooding the board with bodies alone.

Perimeter Enforcer (mkm)
MKM · #31uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, lifelink Whenever another Detective you control enters and whenever a Detective you control is turned face up, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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