Porcelain Legionnaire is a common white artifact creature in Magic: The Gathering’s New Phyrexia that boasts a superb rarity slot for Limited use, and sports an aggressive, cheap, metalcraft-enabling frame.
Porcelain Legionnaire
2[WP]
Artifact Creature – Solider Common
([WP] can be paid with either W or 2 life)
First strike
3/1
Porcelain Legionnaire can be run in any deck and will fire off an incredibly efficient 3/1 first striker for just 2 mana if you’re willing to pay a few points of life.
Contributing to metalcraft and able to attack effortlessly through most small creatures, Porcelain Legionnaire is aggressive and fast, and an absolute terror in a deck featuring Tempered Steel.
A very solid Limited selection in whatever deck you happen to want to run, Porcelain Legionnaire obviously shines brightest in a Mirran metalcraft build – but can be played with ease in just about everything.
1 toughness makes Porcelain Legionnaire a little bit fragile and prevents it from being first-pick material, as it succumbs to many of the single-point jabs and zaps that exist in Scars of Mirrodin block.
Its exceptional malleability and aggressive first-striking frame make Porcelain Legionnaire an exceptional middle of the road pick to enhance whatever grand design you end up completing in your draft.
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