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Urbis Protector

Creature — Human Cleric4 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Almost all of the value sits in the body this card makes rather than the body that makes it. The 1/1 Cleric is a delivery mechanism; the real payoff is the 4/4 white Angel with flying that lands the moment it enters. Splitting one creature across two permanents buys a particular resilience, the kind that matters against edicts and spot removal (kill the Cleric and the Angel stands; force a sacrifice and you feed the Cleric, keeping the flyer). It buys nothing against a board wipe, which catches both. That split is the whole logic. A vanilla 4/4 flyer for six is unremarkable; the same flyer stapled to a chump-blocker and a sacrifice body, on a permanent that triggers again every time it re-enters, is a different proposition. The Cleric is fodder you are glad to feed to an outlet, and any way to blink or recur the body converts one card into an Angel-per-trigger engine. The price is the rate: you spend six for a token-maker whose own frame contributes almost nothing in combat, paying a premium for the enters-the-battlefield value rather than the stats. On its own it reads as filler; next to anything that wants creatures entering, dying, or coming back, it becomes a payoff.

Urbis Protector (a25)
A25 · #37uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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