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Wingmantle Chaplain

Creature — Human Cleric3 generic manaWhite mana

Walls have always carried a payoff problem: the archetype asks you to fill a board with bodies that cannot attack, then needs a reason those bodies matter beyond soaking damage. This is the answer, and its design solves the problem from two directions at once. When it lands, it scales off the defensive shell you have already committed, converting a static clot of high-toughness zeroes into a flock of evasive attackers in one shot. The second ability keeps the machine running: every subsequent creature with defender you drop pays a flying dividend, so the same bodies that were only ever going to sit and block start generating an offense on the side. That reframes the whole strategy. A pile of walls stops being a purely reactive stall and becomes a value board where each new defender is both a fortification and a token producer. The 0/3 body keeps the design honest: it counts itself among the defenders, but it will never swing, so all the pressure comes from the birds it manufactures rather than from the Chaplain doing anything on the ground. What it rewards is a build that already wanted to clog the ground and now has a way to close from the air, turning the least aggressive creature type in the game into a wide, evasive clock.

Wingmantle Chaplain (dmu)
DMU · #39uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender When this creature enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying for each creature with defender you control. Whenever another creature you control with defender enters, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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