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Veteran Beastrider

Creature — Human Knight1 generic manaGreen manaWhite mana

The end-step untap is what turns this from a serviceable body into a sequencing engine. Vigilance lets one creature attack and still block, but only for the turn it swings; here the entire team resets to untapped once your combat resolves, so every creature can attack and be back up to block on the crackback. That includes tapped mana dorks, which come online again each of your end steps to fuel the second half of the card. The pump is where the timing gets sharp: its bonus expires when the turn does, so swinging pumped means those creatures shrink back to base before they ever block. The trick is to spend the +1/+1 where it counts. Attack, untap on your end step, then hold mana and fire the pump as a combat trick during your opponent's alpha strike, catching their attackers into a wall of blockers you have suddenly grown. The activation doubles as a mana sink, so a stalled board keeps drawing value from the untap trigger rather than sitting idle. This asks to anchor a go-wide green-white team, where each additional creature multiplies both halves: more attackers that stay back on defense, and more bodies to catch the pump when you choose to spend it. Alone it is a 3/4 with a slow win condition; with a board behind it, it converts a stalemate into a repeatable vise, since your team threatens damage on your turn and grows into a fortress on theirs.

Veteran Beastrider (dft)
DFT · #226uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your end step, untap each creature you control. 2 generic manaGreen manaWhite mana: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Legalities

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Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
N/A
Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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