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Arena Athlete

First printed in Theros (2013)

All 3 prints

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  • Foundations Jumpstart (J25) #518, 2024
  • Ultimate Masters (UMA) #123, 2018
  • Theros (THS) #113, 2013

Arena Athlete

Creature — Human

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.

The Iroan Games award no medals. Athletes vie for a visit from Iroas, god of victory.

2/1

Illustrated by
Jason Chan

Legality

Legal in
Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Not legal in
Standard, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH, Standard Brawl

Rulings (4)
  • 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.
  • Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
  • Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.
  • 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.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).