Name
Arena Athlete

Mana Cost

Type
Creature — Human

Set
Ultimate Masters

Rarity
Common

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.


Power/Toughness
2/1

Number
#123

Other Prints
Foundations Jumpstart
Theros

Legal Formats
Brawl | Commander | Duel | Gladiator | Historic | Legacy | Modern | Oathbreaker | Pauper | Pauper Commander | Penny | Pioneer | Timeless | Vintage

Availability
Magic Online | Paper

Rulings

(07/12/2018)
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.


(15/09/2013)
Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.


(15/09/2013)
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.


(15/09/2013)
Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.


Artist
Jason Chan

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