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Priest of Iroas

Creature — Human ClericRed mana

A red one-drop that destroys enchantments is a small joke at the color pie's expense, and the construction owns up to it. Red doesn't get to touch enchantments, so the ability is gated behind white mana and the body's own life: three generic, a white, and the creature itself, all spent to answer a single target. That is a steep tax for a 1/1, and it tells you the destruction was never the headline. What the card actually offers is a one-mana attacker carrying an enchantment answer in its back pocket, payable only once it has been splashed into a deck running white. The Cleric's faith is conditional: it does its devotional work for Iroas as a body first, and only converts into removal when the board state and the mana cooperate. This is the cheap-creature-with-stapled-clause pattern, where the ability is insurance rather than a plan, built so the creature is still doing something the turn it lands even if the enchantment it was meant to break never appears. Sacrificing it for the destruction is a one-for-one in card terms, made only when the enchantment is worth more than a 1/1: exactly the calculation the gating is meant to force.

Priest of Iroas (ths)
THS · #134common
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

3 generic manaWhite mana, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target enchantment.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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