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Raiyuu, Storm's Edge

Legendary Creature — Human Samurai2 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

The extra combat step has always been a build-around trigger stapled to something fragile: an enchantment, a sorcery, a body that has to survive to attack. Here it lives on a 3/3 with first strike, and the condition that unlocks it is the same condition Samurai already want to meet. A single attacker, alone, gets untapped and (in the first combat phase) hands you a second combat. That untap is the quiet engine: because the creature is no longer tapped, it swings again in the bonus phase, and a lord effect or an anthem turns that doubled attack into a real clock. The design threads a genuine needle. Go-wide decks get nothing from it, since the trigger demands a lone attacker; the reward is aimed squarely at the sword-and-a-single-blade fantasy the Samurai type has always chased and rarely paid off. First strike matters more than it looks, too: a lone attacker is exactly the creature most exposed to a blocker, and striking first keeps the engine intact through the crackback it invites. The untap-and-repeat structure echoes older extra-combat payoffs like Aggravated Assault, but those cost mana every turn and care about your whole board. Restricting the payoff to one attacker is what lets it ride free on a body, and it makes the deckbuilding question sharp rather than open: how do you build a lone Samurai into a lethal one before the second swing?

Raiyuu, Storm's Edge (prm)
PRM · #98075rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.90
Foil: $1.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

First strike Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, untap it. If it's the first combat phase of the turn, there is an additional combat phase after this phase.
Legalities

Format Status

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