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Stalking Tiger

Creature — Cat3 generic manaGreen mana

An early attempt to put evasion on a vanilla-ish green body without breaking green's color rules. Green has never been allowed clean flying or unblockability, so the design vocabulary it gets instead is gang-block prevention: the creature still meets resistance, it just can't be swarmed. The "can't be blocked by more than one creature" clause is a soft evasion that does real work on a fat body, because the thing that usually kills a 3/3 in red zone is two small blockers ganging up to trade up. Strip that option away and the 3/3 either gets through for damage or eats one creature in a profitable trade. It is the structural ancestor of menace, which later codified the same idea into a single keyword and inverted the polarity (menace requires two blockers; this permits at most one). The distinction matters at the margins: a lone blocker still stops this creature cold, whereas menace pushes damage through any single defender. As a piece of green's evasion history it documents how the color was kept honest before the modern keyword toolkit existed, with each evasive ability spelled out longhand and tuned to leave a counterplay window open.

Stalking Tiger (por)
POR · #186common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Legalities

Format Status

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