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Tocatli Honor Guard

Creature — Human Soldier1 generic manaWhite mana

A hatebear built entirely around one verb that the rest of the game leans on harder every year: entering. The body is incidental; the function is a static lockdown of enters-the-battlefield triggers across both players, which is a strange place to put white's hate because it punishes the engine that most modern value decks are made of. Blink loops, fetch-and-flicker toolboxes, token-and-trigger shells, the whole apparatus of getting creatures onto the battlefield specifically to cash a trigger goes inert while this sits in play. The precision is what makes it elegant: it touches only triggers that fire from a creature entering, so combat, activated abilities, and your opponent's removal still work normally, and it does not stop the creatures themselves, only the value they were supposed to generate. That symmetry is the catch, since it shuts off your own enter-triggers too, which is why it tends to live in decks that simply do not care about them. It sits in a lineage of asymmetric-by-deckbuilding hatebears like Hushbringer, which covers leave-the-battlefield triggers as well, where the question is never the rate but whether your gameplan is clean enough to give nothing up in exchange for switching off someone else's whole machine.

Tocatli Honor Guard (xln)
XLN · #42rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.
Legalities

Format Status

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