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Vedalken Heretic

Creature — Vedalken RogueGreen manaBlue mana

A 1/1 that draws a card on connect is a design Wizards has tuned and retuned for decades: Ophidian asked you to attack and trade its combat damage, Curiosity bolted the trigger onto a creature you already controlled, Coastal Piracy taxed the whole team. This strips the engine to its leanest form and prices it plainly: no upkeep, no attack-trigger tax, just damage-to-an-opponent equals a card. The catch is the one every fragile cantrip-creature shares: a 1/1 dies to anything and gets chump-blocked by everything, so every card hangs on the body slipping through unanswered. What the green-blue identity buys is the apparatus to make that happen, since both colors are flush with evasion, pump, and protection, and any of them turns a chip-damage nuisance into a recurring source of cards. The payoff scales with how easily the opponent declines to block a one-power attacker, then converts that single unblocked point into resource advantage turn after turn. That dependency is what defines it: less a standalone threat than a finisher for a board you have already pried open, asking the deckbuilder to supply the means of connection rather than supplying its own.

Vedalken Heretic (arb)
ARB · #104rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.64
Foil: $0.76
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
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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