Nalathni Dragon
Mana Cost:
Type: Creature — Dragon
Oracle Text:
Flying; banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice this creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Power/Toughness: 1/1
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Mystery Booster 2
Price ( USD): $0.23
USD: $0.23 · EUR: €0.27
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Character Background
Nalathni Dragon reads like a relic of old design that wants to be an evasive, tempo‑driven finisher: a cheap flying 1/1 that can turn into a threat by burning mana into +1/+0 pumps, so it best supports aggressive/tempo decks that plan short, explosive windows rather than long grindy games. Its banding makes it oddly useful in combat tricks — in casual or vintage shells where other banding creatures exist, or when you band it with one non‑bander, you can force a blocker’s damage to be split onto Nalathni and a protected ally, letting you sacrifice it later and preserve a key creature. Build around it with haste enablers (Fervor) and simple pump sources or equipment like Bonesplitter to make each activation count, and include a red sacrifice outlet (Goblin Bombardment) or death‑trigger synergies to convert the delayed sacrifice into value. Play it as a repeated one‑turn threat: three pumps to close damage, or four if you want a big last swing and have a plan for the coming sacrifice.
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