Favored Hoplite
- Mana cost
- {W}
- Type
- Creature — Human Soldier
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 2
- Set
- Explorer Anthology 1 #1 (uncommon)
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn.
Favored Hoplite has 3 printings, first in Theros (2013). EDHREC ranks it #19,363 among Commander cards. It appears most in Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza decks (402 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Favored Hoplite most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza: 402 decks
- Anax and Cymede: 180 decks
- Mavinda, Students' Advocate: 114 decks
- Danitha, Sword of Hope: 9 decks
- Hawkeye, Bowslinger: 7 decks
- Colleen Wing, Street Samurai: 4 decks
- Mockingbird, Ace Agent: 2 decks
Often played with Favored Hoplite
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.
- : 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.