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Wakka, Devoted Guardian

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaGreen manaWhite mana

Combat-damage triggers usually reward you for connecting once; this one snowballs the whole board off a single hit. The artifact destruction is a rider you can decline (destroy "up to one"), which keeps it live against opponents with nothing worth blowing up, but the +1/+1 counter it drops on itself is not optional, and that counter is the fuse for the real payoff. Because Blitzball Captain checks only whether a counter landed this turn, any source will do: the combat trigger, a proliferate effect, an anthem counter you placed on your own turn. Once that condition is met, the end-step trigger fans a +1/+1 counter out to every other creature you control, which turns a wide green-white board into a threat that grows faster than opponents can trade into it. Reach and trample are connective tissue rather than decoration: trample makes the combat trigger hard to fizzle behind chump blockers, so the counter that feeds the end-step reliably arrives. The design sits in the go-wide-with-counters lineage green-white has circled for years, but it collapses two jobs a deck normally splits between an aggressive body and a counter-distribution engine into one four-mana creature. That collapse is the whole appeal: it wants to attack immediately, and every successful attack makes the next turn's board bigger, so the clock and the value engine share the same card.

Wakka, Devoted Guardian (fic)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach, trample Whenever Wakka deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target artifact that player controls and put a +1/+1 counter on Wakka. Blitzball Captain — At the beginning of your end step, if a counter was put on Wakka this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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