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Seifer Almasy

Legendary Creature — Human Knight3 generic manaRed mana

The design rewards a specific, almost antisocial style of combat: send exactly one creature, and it swings with double strike. That is a payoff for the lone-attacker plan that goes back to cards like Rafiq of the Many, but the choice of double strike over trample or menace tells you what this card actually wants, which is to convert connections into stack triggers rather than raw board pressure. Fire Cross is the engine: hit a player and you recast an instant or sorcery of mana value 3 or less from your graveyard for free, exiling it afterward so you cannot loop the same spell forever. That exile clause sets the terms of the free cast; each dead spell is a one-shot, so the deck this belongs in treats the graveyard as a queue of cheap burn and cantrips rather than a single card to abuse. The two abilities interlock cleanly. Attacking alone is normally how you get outclassed by a bigger blocker, and double strike answers that: the first strike hits before ordinary blockers can trade, and connecting for player damage is what the graveyard cast is keyed to. The 3/4 body is built to survive the return swing rather than race, which suits a plan that only needs one creature through per turn. The trigger fires strictly on player damage, so it never rewards trading punches in the midboard.

Seifer Almasy (fin)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains double strike until end of turn. Fire Cross — Whenever Seifer Almasy deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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