Arena Athlete
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Human
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 1
- Set
- Ultimate Masters #123 (common)
- Price
- $0.15 USD
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.
Arena Athlete has 3 printings, first in Theros (2013). EDHREC ranks it #24,838 among Commander cards. It appears most in Anax and Cymede decks (77 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Arena Athlete most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Anax and Cymede: 77 decks
- Cleon, Merry Champion: 36 decks
- Bill Potts: 1 decks
Often played with Arena Athlete
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.