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Pompous Gadabout

Creature — Human Citizen2 generic manaGreen mana

The unblockable clause is the joke and the mechanic in one gesture: a creature too self-important to notice anything lacking a proper name blocking its path. In practice this reads as a narrow, flavorful piece of evasion rather than a general one. Almost every creature in Magic has a name, including tokens (a Zombie token is literally named "Zombie"), so the clause only bites against face-down creatures: the Morphs, Manifests, and their kin that sit on the battlefield as nameless 2/2s until turned up. Against a defensive wall of face-down bodies, this walks through untouched; against everything else, it is blocked like any other 4/2. That specificity is the design's actual texture, a punish for a particular kind of board rather than a reliable finisher.

What makes the rest cohere is hexproof confined to your own turn. A 4/2 for three mana is a fragile body that wants to attack every turn but crumples to any spot removal aimed at it. Restricting the protection to your turn defends the window it cares about (your combat, your pump, your aura investment) while leaving it answerable on the opponent's turn, before it can swing again. That split is the discipline that keeps a cheap, evasive beater from being a free ride: it shields the attacker in motion without granting the permanent immunity that would make an early green threat genuinely oppressive to interact with.

Pompous Gadabout (mkm)
MKM · #171uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

During your turn, this creature has hexproof. This creature can't be blocked by creatures that don't have a name.
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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