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Triton Cavalry

Creature — Merfolk Soldier3 generic manaBlue mana

The heroic trigger here is pointed at a specific problem: the enchantment, the permanent type an entire block built its identity around. Where most heroic creatures cash their trigger into a counter or a combat buff, turning a targeting spell into board presence, this one converts the same act into tempo against a whole class of permanents, bouncing a god, an aura, or a stat-boosting enchantment back to hand every time you aim a pump or protection spell at it. The 2/4 body is the quiet enabler: four toughness means the cheap targeting spells that fuel heroic do not also have to keep the creature alive, so the bounce keeps firing while the Merfolk holds a ground stall. What limits it is that the trigger is parasitic on your own spells. It does nothing on an empty stack and rewards a deck already leaning on cheap targeted effects, so the enchantment-bounce is a bonus layered onto a plan you were running anyway rather than a standalone answer you can hold up. That makes it a build-around piece rather than a maindeck staple: in an environment thick with enchantments it is recurring disruption stapled to a heroic engine, and outside one it is a defensive body with a dead clause.

Triton Cavalry (jou)
JOU · #55uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, you may return target enchantment to its owner's hand.
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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