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Strongarm Monk

Creature — Human Monk4 generic manaWhite mana

Spellslinger payoffs usually live on small, fragile bodies that turn every cantrip into a sliver of damage; this one inverts the math by attaching the trigger to a 3/3 and then handing the pump to the entire board rather than to itself. The reward is wide, not tall: cast one noncreature spell and your whole team swings a step bigger, which makes the Monk a far better fit for a go-wide white shell than for the lone-prowess-creature line it superficially resembles. The friction is the five-mana cost, steep enough that by the time it lands you are usually casting your spells with a board already assembled, so the +1/+1 is meant to break a stalled combat rather than to grind incremental value over many turns. It is a one-sided overrun that fires once per noncreature spell and stacks within a turn, which rewards a hand of cheap instants held for a single explosive attack step. White rarely gets this kind of repeatable team-wide pump tied to spellcasting, since prowess and its cousins almost always confine the bonus to the creature that carries the keyword; routing the effect outward, to creatures you control, is the design wrinkle that makes the Monk a different animal from the prowess line it borrows its trigger from.

Strongarm Monk (dtk)
DTK · #39uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.60
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
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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