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Prized Unicorn

Creature — Unicorn3 generic manaGreen mana

The whole card is one compulsion: every creature that can legally block it, must. The body is almost beside the point, because this Unicorn was never built to win a fight. It was built to force one. It is the old Lure effect on a creature rather than an aura, and that distinction relocates the risk: kill the Unicorn and the compulsion vanishes with it, where Lure stapled to one of your real attackers keeps dragging the defending line into combat as long as that creature stays on the battlefield. That fragility is also the design's discipline. A four-mana 2/2 that pulls an entire wall of blockers into one fight is a fine deal only if you have the trample or the mass-removal payoff waiting; sent in alone, it trades for a single defender and dies. The interesting tension is the word "able." A creature that cannot legally block the Unicorn (wrong evasion, tapped, a restriction of its own) is exempt, so the compulsion reads more like a riddle than a guarantee: the attacker decides who is forced to the front by deciding what those defenders are allowed to do. It is a build-around enabler whose entire job is to manufacture a combat math you resolve with everything else on the table, and it does nothing on a board you have not already set up to punish.

Prized Unicorn (ori)
ORI · #287uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
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Oracle Text

Rules text

All creatures able to block this creature do so.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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