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Rapid Augmenter

Creature — Otter Artificer1 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

The distinction between cast and not-cast is where this design does its interesting work. Two triggers fire on your other creatures entering, but they read for different things: the first hands haste to any one-power creature, no matter how it arrives; the second only rewards creatures that entered without being cast, and it pays in a stacking +1/+1 counter plus unblockability for the turn. That second clause quietly pins the card to a token-and-blink strategy rather than a normal deploy-creatures curve, because hard-casting your creatures does nothing for the evasion engine. Reanimation, blink effects, copy tokens, treasure-into-Myr, any creature that shows up by a route other than the stack: those are what turn a 1/3 into a growing, unblockable threat. It is a payoff dressed as a lord, and the two triggers are aimed at populations that only partly overlap, so the deckbuilding tension is real: cheap one-power bodies want the haste line, while free entrances want the counter line, and the cards that satisfy both are the ones worth chasing. The haste on itself is the tell that it wants to attack early and often, not sit back as a static enabler. Read the counter clause carefully before trusting it in a go-wide shell; a board full of hard-cast dorks leaves this Otter exactly where it started.

Rapid Augmenter (blc)
BLC · #70rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Whenever another creature you control with base power 1 enters, it gains haste until end of turn. Whenever another creature you control enters, if it wasn't cast, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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