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Pterodon Knight

Creature — Human Knight3 generic manaWhite mana

Flying is on a leash here, tied not to a keyword or a mana cost but to the presence of a Dinosaur on the battlefield. Field one lizard and this Human Knight takes to the air; lose your last saurian to a removal spell and it drops back to the dirt, potentially mid-combat, because the static ability rechecks the board continuously rather than locking in once. That gating turns a plain 3/3 body into a tribal payoff that never prints the word "Dinosaur" in its own type line: the reward for building around the tribe is delivered by a creature that is not a member of it. The design is doing incentive work sideways. In a swarm of ground-pounding saurians that mostly wants to march forward together, the Knight becomes the piece that closes from above, evasion arriving exactly when you have committed enough Dinosaurs to earn it. Strip them away and the keyword winks off, leaving a body with nothing to say. The Human Knight typing is the small joke at the center of it: a creature whose entire relevance is borrowed from a tribe it does not belong to, a clean common-rarity expression of what tribal support looks like when the reward and the requirement live on different cards.

Pterodon Knight (xln)
XLN · #28common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.05
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature has flying as long as you control a Dinosaur.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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