A-Civil Servant
SNC · common · Released 2022-10-06
Tiers
fringe
tier-2
tier-2
Commander Bracket
1Precon2Core3Upgraded4Optimized5cEDH
Archetypes
positive:
aggrotokens-go-wide
negative:
No active conflicts.
Roles
aggressive-creatureevasive-threat
Risks
requires-tribe-densityonce-per-turn-restrictedconditional-trigger
Mechanics
—
Typal
synergy:
cathuman
anti:
—
Structural
triggered-abilityactivated-ability
Rationale
A 2/3 GW Cat Citizen that taps another untapped Citizen on attack to gain +1/+0 and trample — a solid aggressive body in Citizen-tribal or token-go-wide shells where tapping a spare creature to push trample damage is easy. The trigger requires Citizen density to fire consistently, making it narrow outside its tribal home. Commander-illegal (Arena-only A- card); rates as fringe in Commander since it's not legal there but evaluated intrinsically.
Learnings (3)
The 'A-' prefix indicates this is an Arena-only rebalanced version of the card, meaning it is legal in Brawl but explicitly not legal in paper Commander formats.
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Citizen is a relatively shallow tribe in most formats; this card's trample pump only matters when you have a second untapped Citizen on attack, making wide boards or haste-granting effects key enablers.
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Tapping the second Citizen is a cost built into the trigger's condition, not a separate activated ability — it cannot be responded to separately and doesn't use the stack.
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