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It's like Eternal Warrior turned white.
Hardly surprising, for vigilance being a typical white ability these days.

Not a particularly creative name...

am I wrong in thinking this is the worst card ever?

Not really the worst. Actually there's a good combo to this.

Attach to Master decoy or similar cards to this renders 1 creature of an opponent useless and free attack. ^_^

Lol 'vigilance' I don't ever see being in any way a bad idea for a card to give a creature; I see it as more good for duel color decks that use white, cause, yeah aint alot of white creatures worth putting this on, BUT plenty of other creatures it'd be worth putting on :D

4 stars for the excellent flavour text. Functionally, it's not great, but combos nicely with something like Vulshok Gauntlets.

@LuckyMonkey2367:

Yes.

First, because it's not all that bad (though I'd rather play Serra's Blessing for two and be done with it). Second, because there's Wood Elemental.

Uh, that's quite the creative name. "Vigilance - gives vigilance." Wowee.

Because of this, I think Vigilance should actually be keyworded as "Eternal Warrior." Trample should be Primal Frenzy; First Strike should be Lance. And of course, who could deny the awesome might of the Mountain Goat, with its awe-inspiring Burrowing powers. That's right, a burrowing mountain goat.

Tremble in fear.

you: i'll cast a norwood ranger and give it vigilance.
opponent:what does it do :/
you:a word of advise STOP PLAYING

Aaron’s Random Card Comment of the Day #50, 1/3/11

This is kind of a funny card in that it shares a name with the ability it grants what it enchants. There are a few such examples of cards like these:

vigilance -> Vigilance
lifelink -> Lifelink
flying -> Flight (close enough)

Of course, there are more single keywords granted by Auras that do not share a name with them:

trample -> Primal Frenzy
first strike -> Lance, Reflexes
double strike -> Battle Mastery
defender -> Guard Duty
swampwalk -> Leshrac's Rite
mountainwalk -> Burrowing
forestwalk -> Dryad's Favor
islandwalk -> Fishliver Oil

Maybe I’m forgetting some, but in general we don’t match the name to the ability. In fact, check out this one from Legends:

vigilance -> Eternal Warrior

Normally, giving a card a name that matches an ability it grants is pretty lazy and uncreative. But once in a while, as with Vigilance, we want to use the card name to help educate people what the name for the keyword is. You see, the keyword “vigilance” debuted in Champions of Kamigawa (previously it had no keyword and was written out) and we figured the best way to get people to remember and embrace it was to name a card after it. Similar logic went into the card name “Lifelink” for Magic 2010 even though the keyword had existed since Future Sight. People were calling that ability “spirit link” after the card Spirit Link, so it made sense for the card that granted lifelink to be called “Lifelink.”

Vigilance (the card) was made as a Core Set “plant”—meaning it was designed for Core Set use back in the days when we weren’t making new cards in Core Sets themselves. Funny enough, it has yet to actually appear in a Core Set. I guess now that people know and use the word, the card just isn’t useful or powerful enough to reprint. Maybe some day we'll bring ourselves to dust it off and have it be a last pick, but you're all safe for now.

The name Regenerate is a bit odd, then, seeing as that wasn't new at the time.

Aaron: Don't forget Indestructibility.

It might not be a great card, but it earns bonus points for just being so simple. You want to give a creature vigilance? Well then stick vigilance on it then.

Oh, and I've just noticed that the guy in the picture is holding a lance... I guess that's what gives him his Vigi-lance...

Why is this card rated so badly? Vigilance is my second favourite ability, after trample, and its very useful to be able to attack with something like a 6/6 and then still be able to block with it on my next turn. And for one mana, it's a steal! Yeah, you could "just Naturalize it", but still its only ONE. FRIGGIN. MANA.

Kamahl, Pit Fighter

Swing 'n' Bolt
Swing 'n' Bolt

pretty marginal effect. It's usually not worth it.

Why is everyone typing in italics?

Fear?

This card is really awful. It's weak because it's a regular aura, leading to a potential 2-1 loss, the ability it grants is of marginal importance, and the card is generally boring overall. I would have expected a card like this back in the "old" days, but not anymore.

"Put a spear in a peasant's hands, and you have an expendable troop. Put a purpose in his heart, and you win a warrior. Now set that spear on fire, and things start getting awesome."-Sensei Golden-Tail

Hooray for cards that do what they say and say what they do I guess. o3o

@Shadoflaam:

It's a formatting error on Gatherer, because Aaron Forsythe's comment gets cut off by the "(see all)" option while in the middle of italics tags. If we were to bomb his comment until it got pushed off the Popular Comments section, nothing would be italicized anymore. If you don't believe me, go to a different page in the Popular Comments section, and suddenly all the Recent Comments will no longer be italicized. Wacky, I know.

@ScepterofEternities: Wait, why would you want to give anyone a Scorching Spear? It's too horrible even for the lowest of peasants.

I like the word play here... Haha :D

Nabata, father of Chandra.

Does the background kinda remind anyone else of the scene where Neo fights Morpheus during the training exercise?

Comboes with inspired creatures.
Oh wait...