MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #1

Favored Hoplite

DIGITAL ONLY

ea1·#1·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Winona Nelson

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wishlisted

Jul '22

4 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #18,817 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Creature — Human Soldier

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn.

1/2

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 3

2013-09-15wotc

Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.

2013-09-15wotc

Heroic abilities won't trigger when a copy of a spell is created on the stack or when a spell's targets are changed to include a creature with a heroic ability.

2013-09-15wotc

Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from EA1 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #1 of *Explorer Anthology 1*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2022 Explorer Anthology 1 release.

Card type: Creature — Human Soldier, color identity white, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {W} (1 converted). Keyword abilities: Heroic.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #18,817 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Winona Nelson. Rarix catalogs 608 other cards credited to this artist.