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Vault Guardsman

Artifact Creature — Human Advisor5 generic manaWhite mana

Flicker-style exile removal that hands back the answered permanent when the body dies is a well-worn white template: Banisher Priest and Fiend Hunter established the shape, and everything since has traded a fragile creature for temporary custody of the opponent's best permanent. Convoke is what changes the tempo math on that effect, which normally demands full price. Here you can deploy the removal off a wide board without spending your turn's real mana, so the exile lands the same turn you empty your hand of creatures rather than a turn later. The exile itself is broad (artifact or creature), which matters in a white shell that wants a single answer for both a threatening body and a combo artifact without splashing. The catch is the one this archetype has always carried: the exile is stapled to a 3/4 that any spot-removal or bounce effect will unstick, returning the opponent's permanent at an inconvenient moment. That built-in reversibility is the tax the design pays for putting flexible exile on a convokable creature you can drop early. The card works best not as a standalone answer but as a way to spend a crowded board on erasing a problem while the rest of your creatures stay on the table.

Vault Guardsman (msc)
MSC · #612uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.61
Foil: $0.62
Oracle Text

Rules text

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 1 generic mana or one mana of that creature's color.) When this creature enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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