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Whirlwind Adept

Creature — Djinn Monk4 generic manaBlue mana

Hexproof and prowess pull toward opposite decklists, which is why they rarely share a card. Hexproof wants a body worth protecting: stack auras and pump onto a creature the opponent can never target, and win before a sweeper shows up. Prowess wants a hand full of noncreature spells, but the growth it hands out lasts only until end of turn, exactly the fleeting tempo a hexproof beater doesn't usually care about. This Djinn Monk asks to be both at once: a 4/2 with no evasion your opponent can't touch, swinging as a 5/3 or larger off a single instant. The two toughness is what stops it from finishing games on its own (combat math catches up the moment prowess wears off), so the 4/2 is designed to be carried, either by whatever noncreature spells the deck is running or by the protection it hands itself. That self-protection is the real wrinkle. Targeted pump you'd happily aim at any other creature can never be answered with a Doom Blade in response here, because there is no legal target to interrupt: the pump and the body are both untouchable. What results is a member of the uninteractive-beater school, the line of threats that force the opponent to race rather than answer, with a five-mana buy-in that demands you sink real resources into the board before that race even begins.

Whirlwind Adept (ktk)
KTK · #63common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of 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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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