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Soulbound Guardians

Creature — Kor Spirit4 generic manaWhite mana

A 4/5 flyer behind a wall: that contradiction is the whole point. Defender locks the body in place, but flying means the thing it defends against doesn't have to come to it. Most defenders are ground-bound, plugging the lane the opponent's creatures want to walk through; pairing the keyword with flying turns the card into an air-superiority piece that can block almost anything an opponent flies in while contributing nothing to the offensive clock. The 5 toughness is the number that matters here, sized to survive the combat trades and burn that smaller flyers fold to, so it sticks around as a permanent ceiling on the opponent's evasive damage. It is a defensive specialist with a narrow, well-defined job: shut down the air without ever advancing your own board. That single-mindedness is also the limit. A creature that flies but cannot attack is asking to be built around by decks that wanted a wall anyway, which is a narrower ask than a card with this much toughness usually gets to make.

Soulbound Guardians (roe)
ROE · #45uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.49
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender, flying
Legalities

Format Status

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