Warrior

Warrior is a creature class.

Description

Warriors are combatants who fight alone or in loose hordes. Unlike soldiers, whose strength is in their numbers, a single warrior is often content to take on the world all by him- or herself. Warriors favor brute strength over cunning, sheer will over tactics. Many warriors have trample.

The first card to feature the type was Cat Warriors from Legends. Retroactively, many cards like Dwarven Warriors, Goblin Balloon Brigade and Orcish Artillery from Alpha gained the type, as well. Most warriors are black, red, or green.

Notable Warriors

• Barktooth Warbeard
• Bartel Runeaxe
• Brion Stoutarm
• Dakkon Blackblade
• Eladamri
• Greven il-Vec
• Gideon Jura
• Hunding Gjornersen
• Ishi-Ishi
• Jedit Ojanen
• Kalitas
• Kasimir
• Kazuul
• Kresh
• Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
• Kyyrao Grenmw
• Livonya Silone
• Maraxus of Keld
• Marhault Elsdragon
• Mirri
• Najeela, the Blade-Blossom
• Nath
• Norin
• Purraj of Urborg
• Radha
• Rhys
• Sedris
• Shisato, Whispering Hunter
• Sosuke
• Stangg
• Stonebrow
• Tahngarth
• Tolsimir Wolfblood
• Vhati il-Dal
• Mandek Ironfist
• Zo-Zu
• Zurgo Helmsmasher

Tribal type

• Morningtide featured Obsidian Battle-Axe, an equipment that equips for free on Warriors if they just entered the battlefield.
• Brighthearth Banneret makes Warrior spells cheaper to cast.
• Chief of the Edge and Chief of the Scale give +1/+0 and +0/+1, respectably.
• Herald of Dromoka gives Warriors Vigilance.
• Blood-Chin Rager gives Warriors Menace.

Warrior tokens

Token	Color	Type	P/T	Additional Rules	Source	Printings
Warrior	White	Creature — Warrior	1/1		Blaring Recruiter Herald of Anafenza Mardu Charm Mardu Hordechief Najeela, the Blade-Blossom Regna, the Redeemer Secure the Wastes Take Up Arms
	White	Creature — Warrior	1/1	Vigilance	Cartouche of Solidarity Oketra the True Oketra's Monument Start Supply Caravan
	Black	Creature — Warrior	2/1		Mardu Strike Leader
	Red	Creature — Warrior	1/1		Rally the Horde
Cat Warrior	Green	Creature — Cat Warrior	2/2	Forestwalk	Lord Windgrace Jedit Ojanen of Efrava
Elf Warrior	Green	Creature — Elf Warrior	1/1		Ambassador Oak Dwynen's Elite Elvish Promenade Flourishing Defenses Gilt-Leaf Ambush Hunting Triad Imperious Perfect Lys Alana Huntmaster Nath of the Gilt-Leaf Presence of Gond Prowess of the Fair Sylvan Offering Thorn Lieutenant
	Green/White	Creature — Elf Warrior	1/1		Mercy Killing Rhys the Redeemed
Giant Warrior	White	Creature — Giant Warrior	5/5		Feudkiller's Verdict
	Red/Green	Creature — Giant Warrior	4/4	Haste	Giantbaiting
Goblin Warrior	Red/Green	Creature — Goblin Warrior	1/1		Wort, the Raidmother
Human Warrior named Stangg Twin	Red/Green	Legendary Creature — Human Warrior	3/4		Stangg
Sand Warrior	Red/Green/White	Creature — Sand Warrior	1/1		Hazezon Tamar
Spirit Warrior	Black/Green	Creature — Spirit Warrior	X/X		Kin-Tree Invocation
Treefolk Warrior	Green	Creature — Treefolk Warrior	*/*	This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Forests you control.	Kalonian Twingrove
Cat Warrior named Nacatl War-Pride	Green	Creature — Cat Warrior	3/3	Nacatl War-Pride must be blocked by exactly one creature if able. Whenever Nacatl War-Pride attacks, create X tokens that are copies of Nacatl War-Pride and that are tapped and attacking, where X is the number of creatures defending player controls. Exile the tokens at the beginning of the next end step.	Nacatl War-Pride
Giant Warrior named Warchief Giant	Red	Creature — Giant Warrior	5/3	Haste Myriad	Warchief Giant
Zombie Warrior	Black	Creature — Zombie Warrior	4/4		God-Eternal Oketra
Zombie Bird Warrior named Aven Initiate	White	Creature — Zombie Bird Warrior	3/2	Flying	Aven Initiate
Zombie Bird Warrior named Aven Wind Guide	White	Creature — Zombie Bird Warrior	2/3	Flying, vigilance Creature tokens you control have flying and vigilance.	Aven Wind Guide
Zombie Illusion Warrior named Labyrinth Guardian	White	Creature — Zombie Illusion Warrior	2/3	Whenever Labyrinth Guardian becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it.	Labyrinth Guardian
Zombie Naga Warrior named Tah-Crop Skirmisher	White	Creature — Zombie Naga Warrior	2/1		Tah-Crop Skirmisher
Zombie Human Warrior named Trueheart Duelist	White	Creature — Zombie Human Warrior	2/2	Trueheart Duelist can block an additional creature each combat.	Trueheart Duelist
Zombie Human Warrior named Unwavering Initiate	White	Creature — Zombie Human Warrior	3/2	Vigilance	Unwavering Initiate
Zombie Human Warrior named Proven Combatant	Black	Creature — Zombie Human Warrior	4/4		Proven Combatant
Zombie Jackal Warrior named Earthshaker Khenra	Black	Creature — Zombie Jackal Warrior	4/4	Haste When Earthshaker Khenra enters the battlefield, target creature with power less than or equal to Earthshaker Khenra's power can't block this turn.	Earthshaker Khenra
Zombie Naga Warrior named Sinuous Striker	Black	Creature — Zombie Naga Warrior	4/4	: Sinuous Striker gets +1/-1 until end of turn.	Sinuous Striker

Warrior manlands

Warrior are also created by:

• Ghitu Encampment (2/1 red Warrior with First Strike)

Creature update

In the Grand Creature Type Update the subtype Stangg-Twin for a token created by Stangg was changed into a (Human) Warrior token "named Stangg Twin". The subtypes Raider (Erg Raiders) and War-Rider (Varchild's War-Riders) were incorporated into the Warrior class as well.