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Territorial Witchstalker

Creature — Wolf1 generic manaGreen mana

Defender is usually the whole personality of a card: a wall exists to sit back and block, and most that carry the keyword never intend to swing. This one treats the keyword as a conditional gate rather than a permanent one. The 2/3 body holds ground early, but the moment you field something with power 4 or greater, combat opens the door: the pump and the attack permission arrive together, so it stops defending and starts pushing exactly when your board has grown teeth. The condition is checked at the beginning of your combat each turn, so the switch is never locked in; drop below the threshold and it slides back into wall duty. That two-mode structure is what makes the card worth a second look. A green two-drop that blocks competently in the early turns, then converts into a real attacker in the midgame without asking for extra mana or a separate anthem, folds a defensive opening and an offensive back half into one slot. The threshold is where the card pays for its flexibility: it rewards a curve that reliably lands a beefy body, and it does nothing in a deck that never gets there. The Wolf is only a wall in decks that fail to grow one; give it a power-4 companion and the defense clause quietly turns into a discount on aggression.

Territorial Witchstalker (woe)
WOE · #189common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
Legalities

Format Status

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