Basri, Tomorrow's Champion
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Type: Legendary Creature — Human Knight
Oracle Text:
{W}, {T}, Exert Basri: Create a 1/1 white Cat creature token with lifelink. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)
Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, Cats you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Power/Toughness: 2/1
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Aetherdrift
Price ( USD): $0.30
USD: $0.30 · EUR: €0.25
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Character Background
Basri, Tomorrow’s Champion reads like a one-mana engine for go‑wide white strategies: a legendary Knight who can exert himself to tap out and immediately create a 1/1 lifelink Cat, or be cycled for card selection and a potent one‑turn safeguard for your Cats. Practically, he best supports tempo and token/value decks—drop him early to start chipping in life and bodies, and use exert when you can afford to leave him tapped (or when you don’t need him next turn) to gain tempo and stabilize with lifelink. The cycling mode is both dig and protection—cycle Basri in a clutch turn to give your board hexproof and indestructible, then swing for lethal. Deckbuilding tip: include token-doublers like Anointed Procession and anthem effects such as Intangible Virtue or Glorious Anthem to turn each Basri activation into real clock; pack cheap removal and redundancy (other Cat/token producers) because his 2/1 frame is fragile and you want repeatable value rather than relying on a single legend.
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