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Wraith, Vicious Vigilante

Legendary Creature — Human Detective Hero1 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

A 1/1 body carrying double strike and unconditional evasion is a small chassis wired for one purpose: every point of power you point at it gets counted twice and can't be turned away. The ability named Fear Gas simply makes this creature unblockable, so the opponent's board is irrelevant to whether it connects; no artifact wall, no gang-block, no surprise trade in front of it. That pairing is the whole strategic axis. On its own the card does almost nothing: it dies to any burn spell and trades away most combats it's asked to survive. Its value is entirely conditional on the equipment, auras, and counters that feed it, and on those the double strike doubles the return while the guaranteed connection means the payoff never gets ambushed or chumped. That makes it a Voltron shell in a Detective and Hero costume: a legendary target that converts "make one creature big" into "close the game," so long as the surrounding cards do the feeding. The design tension is the familiar Voltron one, concentrated risk against concentrated reward, but the unblockable-plus-double-strike combination tilts it harder toward the aggressor than most such creatures. The usual defensive answers to a suited-up threat (blocking, ganging up) are precisely the ones this body neutralizes, leaving removal or a race as the cleaner responses and a naked 1/1 as the only thing left to remove if you time it wrong.

Wraith, Vicious Vigilante (om1)
OM1 · #146uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

Double strike Fear Gas — Wraith can't be blocked.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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