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Run for Your Life

InstantBlue manaRed mana

Two mana buys two effects stapled together: haste to let a creature attack the turn it arrives, and a blocking restriction that filters out every defender except those with the haste keyword. That second clause is the sharper half. Granting your own attackers haste is old hat for a tempo aggro deck, but "can't be blocked except by creatures with haste" is a rare kind of evasion: it doesn't care about flying, reach, or size, only about whether the blocker itself has haste. In practice almost no defensive board does, so a wall of long-standing rear-guard bodies and freshly-cast chumps can't intercept at all. That makes the card a finisher disguised as a combat trick, most dangerous aimed at a single large attacker that suddenly can't be gang-blocked or chumped except by the rare defender with haste, and it wants to be cast on your own turn ahead of combat, converting a stalled board into lethal in a single swing. The escape cost is what keeps it relevant past the first cast: exiling four other cards from the graveyard is a steep tax, so it rewards a deck already churning through its library rather than one hoarding it, turning a spent trick into a recurring source of reach in the late game when both players have run low on gas. The whole design leans into the alpha-strike math, where a wide but nonhasty board of blockers looks like a fortress and turns out to be a screen door.

Run for Your Life (who)
WHO · #154rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.34
Foil: $0.42
Oracle Text

Rules text

One or two target creatures each gain haste until end of turn. They can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste. Escape—2 generic manaBlue manaRed mana, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
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
More formats
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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