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Weary Prisoner // Wrathful Jailbreaker

Creature — Human Werewolf // Creature — Werewolf

Every werewolf ever printed wants to see night: that's when the beast comes out, the body swells, and the front-face milk-drinker turns into a threat. This one flips the polarity. Day is the safe state, a 2/6 Defender that holds the ground and asks for nothing, a wall that trades cleanly and blocks all comers. Night is the punishment. Wrathful Jailbreaker sheds Defender but gains a compulsion, marching that same two-power body into whatever the opponent has left up whether the attack is good for you or not. That inversion is the entire design. The transform trigger, which every other card in the cycle treats as the payoff for playing a low-spell tempo game, becomes a liability to be managed: you cast to force it back to day before the mandatory swing walks your blocker into a bad trade or off the table entirely. The werewolf's usual bargain gets rewritten. Instead of racing to unlock the beast, you're racing to keep it caged, and the day/night clock becomes a thing to fear ticking rather than a reward to chase. A defensive wall that turns into a self-endangering attacker the moment you stop feeding the spell count is an unusual shape for the tribe, and it makes the flip mechanic read as a threat aimed inward.

Weary Prisoner // Wrathful Jailbreaker (dbl)
DBL · #451common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.) // This creature attacks each combat if able. Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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