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◇ Catalog #113

Arena Athlete

ths·#113·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Jason Chan

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Sep '13

12 yr ago

Value

$0.10+$0 (+66.7%)

30 days high $0.10 · low $0.06

Volatility · high

USD$0.10EUR€0.04TIX0.03 tix

NM$0.10

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.06–$0.10

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.10low $0.03range 233.3%n 45

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #23,736 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.40

Nonfoil$0.10

Gameplay

Creature — Human

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.

The Iroan Games award no medals. Athletes vie for a visit from Iroas, god of victory.

2/1

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 4

2018-12-07wotc

Resolving Arena Athlete's ability after a creature has blocked won't remove the blocking creature from combat or cause the creature it blocked to become unblocked.

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.

2013-09-15

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 6 days ago at $0.10, up from $0.06 thirty days ago. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.10 across 45 observations — a volatile band. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from THS — the lineup includes Foil and 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 #113 of *Theros*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2013 Theros release.

Card type: Creature — Human, color identity red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{R} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: Heroic.

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

EDHrec ranks this card #23,736 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Jason Chan. Rarix catalogs 415 other cards credited to this artist.