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Triton Tactics

InstantBlue mana

The untap clause is doing the unintuitive work here. Blockers are declared all at once, so a creature that's already tapped (from attacking last turn, from a crew cost, from an activated ability) normally can't block at all. Cast this in the declare-attackers step, before blocks, and those creatures untap in time to ambush a swing they had no business stopping. The +0/+3 keeps them alive through the exchange, and the delayed end-of-combat rider taps down every attacker they blocked and freezes those creatures out of their controller's next untap step. That last part is the payoff: rather than clearing the opponent's blockers to push your own damage, you eat the attack, survive it, and leave the attackers tapped and locked for the crackback, all for a single blue mana. The reactive ambush line gets most of the attention, but the untap is genuinely flexible: it refreshes creatures with tap abilities (a pinger that wants to fire twice, a mana dork tapped for spells) at instant speed, and giving your own attackers a free untap is a one-mana pseudo-vigilance that lets them swing and still block. The trade-off is targeting up to two creatures and nothing more: there's no reach and no way to force a fight, so the card leans on a board with bodies already on it and rewards an opponent's misread of which of your tapped permanents are safe to attack into.

Triton Tactics (ddt)
DDT · #23uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Up to two target creatures each get +0/+3 until end of turn. Untap those creatures. At this turn's next end of combat, tap each creature that was blocked by one of those creatures this turn and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
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
Legal
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