Price$10.00 – $22.08
Buy on TCGplayerNoble Hierarch
Creature — Human Druid
LegalRampRank #786
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
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KeywordsExalted
Why is this card good?
Why it's good: Noble Hierarch is a premium one-drop mana dork — it accelerates you from turn 1 into your turn-2 plays, and it fixes between three colors. In a format where ramping ahead of the table wins games, dorks like this are how Bant decks keep pace with green's bigger Cultivate-style ramp while staying explosive and cheap.
Who wants it: Any Bant (GWU) or two-color subset deck, especially low-curve builds — Voltron commanders, spellslinger/control shells, and combo decks that want to power out their commander fast. The exalted is a real (if minor) bonus in Voltron/single-attacker strategies where you swing with one big threat.
Drawbacks: It's a fragile dork — dies to any board wipe or spot removal, and it's a do-nothing topdeck late. Decks heavy in token swarm or wide aggro get zero value from exalted. And outside Bant colors, it's just a Llanowar Elves with worse rate.
Mostly a fast-mana enabler for tuned, lower-curve Bant lists.
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Printings (9)
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Rulings (4)
- 2020-08-07
If you declare exactly one creature as an attacker, each exalted ability on each permanent you control (including, perhaps, the attacking creature itself) will trigger.
- 2020-08-07
You must attack with exactly one creature for exalted abilities to trigger. Exalted abilities won't trigger if you attack a player with one creature and a planeswalker with another, for example, or if you attack with two creatures but one is removed from combat.
- 2020-08-07
Some effects put creatures onto the battlefield attacking. Since those creatures were never declared as attackers, they're ignored by exalted abilities. They won't cause exalted abilities to trigger. If any exalted abilities have already triggered (because exactly one creature was declared as an attacker), those abilities will resolve as normal even though there may now be multiple attackers.
- 2020-08-07
In a Two-Headed Giant game, a creature “attacks alone” if it's the only creature declared as an attacker by your entire team. If you control that attacking creature, your exalted abilities will trigger but your teammate's exalted abilities won't.