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Village Survivors

Creature — Human4 generic manaGreen mana

A 4/5 with vigilance is already a serviceable green wall, and most of the time that is all this card is. The fateful-hour clause sits dormant until your life total falls to five or below, at which point every other creature you control gains vigilance too. That gating is the whole strategic axis: vigilance matters most when you are racing and cannot afford to leave yourself open, yet the reward only switches on once a race has already turned against you. It is a defensive payoff dressed in aggressive clothing. The four-power, five-toughness frame does real work toward the condition: a body that size survives the combat exchanges that would push a green deck into fateful-hour range, then keeps swinging while it holds the line. Fateful hour as a mechanic treats being low on life as a deliberate position rather than a panic, and this is the version that hands the bonus outward to your team rather than keeping it on the creature carrying the keyword. The design poses a question green almost never gets asked: not how do I keep my life high, but what becomes possible once I let it fall. Once the threshold is crossed, the usual green tension between committing to the attack and holding blockers back simply dissolves, and the whole board can do both at once.

Village Survivors (dka)
DKA · #130uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance Fateful hour — As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control have vigilance.
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
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
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