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Arena Athlete

Card Name

Arena Athlete

Mana Cost

1

Type

Creature – Human

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

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

Flavor Text

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

Legal Formats

Commander, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Standard

Rulings

(9/15/2013)
Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
(9/15/2013)
Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.
(9/15/2013)
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.
(12/7/2018)
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.