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Trespasser il-Vec

Creature — Human Rogue2 generic manaBlack mana

Most evasion is a fixed property: it sits on the card and the opponent either has the answer or does not. Here it is a switch you flip, paid in cards from your hand, available only for the swing you mean to land. That converts a ground creature that would otherwise stall into a shadow threat on demand, with each activation costing real material rather than drawing into more. The 3/1 frame keeps the bargain fair: power enough to threaten, toughness so thin that a single ping ends it, which means whatever you pitch to push three damage through has to be worth less than three damage. Where shadow usually wants you to assemble a separate squad the opponent's creatures simply cannot reach, this design wants timing: a body that everyone can trade with most of the time, slipping out of reach for exactly one attack before the effect wears off and it settles back to earth. The quieter consequence is that the discard has no mana cost and no cap, which makes the creature a repeatable outlet in its own right. For a deck built around stocking the graveyard or firing discard payoffs, the evasion is almost a side benefit; the engine is the free pitch, available every turn, fueling whatever the hand is built to do once the card leaves play.

Trespasser il-Vec (tsr)
TSR · #147common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Discard a card: This creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Legalities

Format Status

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