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Sworn Defender

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Sworn Defender

Comments (17)

Hydrogoose
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (4 votes)
f u ck !
mrredhatter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
U-B-E-R
Run with any Archer/Poker.
nammertime
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Play with Honor of the Pure.
FragNutMK1
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0) (5 votes)
Haha! Love this thing soooo much. Good artwork, flavourful, amazingly well done. This is a proper rare, not completely overpowered like some giant 5 colour hydra legends out there...
XTwistedsoulX
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Thats pretty neat, haven't seen this one yet. Hmm..... Yeah I like it. Extra kudos for being a Knight.
Vedalken_Arbiter
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
heh heh, run with Kinsbaile Cavalier.
NARFNra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good, as long as you aren't going up against wither/infect.
OboyOriginal
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (3 votes)
Run with Doran
Stray_Dog
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Took me a minute to figure out how it works but now that I do it sounds cool.
KnightOfSerra
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (6 votes)
A knight who can singlehandedly stop darksteel colossus in it's tracks. I love the ability. Give it +1/+1 and it kills anything it blocks.
scumbling1
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
She could really use a Bone Saw...
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
The fact that it's an activated ability is actually an advantage: it's not vulnerable to combat tricks, because if someone throws Might of Oaks on whatever is in combat with it you just mimic the buff for {1}.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Hehe, in case there are in German players here who also play the RPG Das Schwarze Auge...

She's carrying an Andergaster! :)
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
FatalEagle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@OboyOriginal
Not smart.
As long as the opposing creature's toughness is higher than its power, your Sworn Defender will die.
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you can find a way to abuse her power, then that's something to keep in mind, but generally she's just a somewhat-worse Sentinel.
Krysto
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The de***ion on this is waaaaay too wordy, and the mana-pump is a slight turn off, but unlike sentinel, this girl is good for attacking AND blocking, whereas sentinel needs a power buff first.

Drop a holy strength on this and for one mana it'll block anything AND kill it unless it's indestructible.

Sure, 4 mana is a bit mid-to-late for this, but that's just in time to block out the late game killers.

So for 1 mana it's just short of killing it's prey and just above being killed by it. For an extra 1 mana you can update those stats to counteract any buffing your opponent can do, but don't get in a pump-war with a shade.

Viscous with trample - 1 mana guarantees it'll be ready to spill over some damage with a small boost, but be VERY careful with attacking because multi-blocking will mutilate this.

I would not mind a reprint of this.