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Yasova Dragonclaw

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior2 generic manaGreen mana

A green three-drop whose combat trigger costs 1 generic manaBlue or Red manaBlue or Red mana is, structurally, a wedge commander compressed into a single card. Those hybrid pips can be paid with any mix of blue and red, so the ability sits comfortably inside a Temur shell without demanding both colors at once every turn; the payment is optional and lives on a triggered ability at the beginning of combat, not on an activation you fire whenever you like. That timing is the engine. The trigger resolves before attackers are declared, hands you an opposing creature smaller than her power, untaps it, and gives it haste, which means the natural line is to swing with the borrowed body and then dispose of it (a sacrifice outlet, a fling effect) before it returns home at end of turn. The 4/2 is both the lever and the leash: power four sets a generous ceiling on what she can grab, but two toughness leaves her dying to almost anything an opponent keeps back. Because control expires each turn, she wants fewer removal spells than she wants ways to convert stolen creatures into permanent value. She is a card built to treat an opponent's board as ammunition to be borrowed and spent, a temporary loan cashed out through a sacrifice engine rather than a trampler that merely swings for four.

Yasova Dragonclaw (frf)
FRF · #148rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.82
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay 1 generic manaBlue or Red manaBlue or Red mana. If you do, gain control of target creature an opponent controls with power less than Yasova Dragonclaw's power until end of turn, untap that creature, and it gains haste until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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