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Twinblade Paladin

Core Set 2020 #285 uncommon
Creature — Human Knight |
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Twinblade Paladin

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Live Value $0.56
Foil Multiplier: Flat Baseline (1.0x)
Reprint Profile:
Printed 3 times ELEVATED

Reprinted 3x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (The List).

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Rarity
uncommon
Set Origin
Daily Shift
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EDHREC Rank
#12,008
Mana Cost
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Oracle Data

Card Type Creature — Human Knight
Color Identity White
Power / Toughness 3 / 3
🖋️ Curator's Notes
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

As long as you have 25 or more life, this creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
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Official Judge Precedents

9 Precedents

If you're dealt first-strike combat damage that brings your life total below 25, Twinblade Paladin will immediately lose double strike. It won't deal regular combat damage unless you bring your life total back above 25 before the regular combat damage step.

If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and Twinblade Paladin's first ability triggers only once.

In a Two-Headed Giant game, Twinblade Paladin has double strike as long as your team has 25 or more life.

In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause Twinblade Paladin's first ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.

If Twinblade Paladin gains double strike after combat damage has already been dealt (most likely because a creature with lifelink dealt combat damage), Twinblade Paladin will deal only regular combat damage.

Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Twinblade Paladin's first ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.

In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the first ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.

Twinblade Paladin's first ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Dazzling Angel or 4 life from Apothecary Stomper.

If Twinblade Paladin is dealt lethal damage at the same time that you gain life, it won't receive a counter from its first ability in time to save it.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 2019-07-12
Set Name: Core Set 2020
Artist Reference: Jana Schirmer
Border Profile: black
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard
Promo Status planeswalkerdeck
Edition Status Original Printing

Sanctioned Formats

standard legal
modern legal
legacy legal
commander legal
pioneer legal
pauper not_legal
vintage legal
brawl legal
explorer not_legal
penny not_legal
predh not_legal
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