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Nalathni 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.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter 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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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.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-16 11:40:44 UTC