A-Civil Servant

SNC · common · Released 2022-10-06

Power

brawl

tier-1Strong staple

commander

tier-2→tier-1Strong staple

Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).

Derived from the 7 atoms below.

over

above rate

standalone

meaningful alone

synergy

wants support

scales

scales up

rigid

one mode

narrow

situational

fragile

easily answered

Commander Bracket

1Precon2Core3Upgraded4Optimized5cEDH

Archetypes

positive:

aggrotokens-go-wide

negative:

No active conflicts.

Roles

aggressive-creatureevasive-threat

Risks

requires-tribe-densityonce-per-turn-restrictedconditional-trigger

Mechanics

—

Typal

synergy:

cathuman

anti:

—

Structural

triggered-abilityactivated-ability

Rationale

A 2/3 GW Cat Citizen that taps another untapped Citizen on attack to gain +1/+0 and trample — a solid aggressive body in Citizen-tribal or token-go-wide shells where tapping a spare creature to push trample damage is easy. The trigger requires Citizen density to fire consistently, making it narrow outside its tribal home. Commander-illegal (Arena-only A- card); rates as fringe in Commander since it's not legal there but evaluated intrinsically.

Learnings (3)

The 'A-' prefix indicates this is an Arena-only rebalanced version of the card, meaning it is legal in Brawl but explicitly not legal in paper Commander formats.
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Citizen is a relatively shallow tribe in most formats; this card's trample pump only matters when you have a second untapped Citizen on attack, making wide boards or haste-granting effects key enablers.
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Tapping the second Citizen is a cost built into the trigger's condition, not a separate activated ability — it cannot be responded to separately and doesn't use the stack.
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