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Triumphant Adventurer

Creature — Human KnightWhite manaBlack mana

A two-drop that wants to swing every turn, and the ability stack is arranged to make that safe. Deathtouch and the offense-only first strike combine into a hard rule: on your turn, this creature kills whatever it touches before taking a scratch back, so a 1/1 can attack profitably into almost any board and dare the defender to block. That combat math is the engine, because attacking is also how you venture. The reward loop is self-sustaining: swing, survive the block on the merits of deathtouch-plus-first-strike, advance a room, repeat. Most venture cards pay a one-time tax to get their dungeon trigger, or bolt it onto an enters-the-battlefield effect you cash once. Tying it to an attack trigger on a body designed to attack unpunished turns venture from a one-shot into a per-turn faucet, and it does so in a color pair that historically leans on grind rather than tempo. The fragility is the counterweight: a 1/1 dies to anything that ignores combat, and a removal spell before the attack step erases the whole plan. But left alone, it climbs a dungeon under its own power turn after turn, which is a rare thing to ask of two mana. The design worth studying is how cleanly the two combat keywords launder an aggressive body into a repeatable value trigger.

Triumphant Adventurer (afr)
AFR · #390rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.42
Foil: $0.49
Oracle Text

Rules text

Deathtouch During your turn, this creature has first strike. Whenever this creature attacks, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
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
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
N/A
TLR
Legal
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