TYPE
Creature — Human

ABILITY
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Arena Athlete, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.

POWER/TOUGHNESS
2/1

FLAVOR TEXT
The Iroan Games award no medals. Athletes vie for a visit from Iroas, god of victory.

ILLUSTRATOR
Jason Chan

LEGALITIES
Standard Future Historic Timeless Gladiator Pioneer Explorer Modern Legacy Pauper Vintage Penny Commander Oathbreaker Standardbrawl Brawl Alchemy Paupercommander Duel Oldschool Premodern Predh

LANGUAGES
EN JP

RULINGS

• 2013-09-15 Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
• 2013-09-15 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.
• 2013-09-15 Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.
• 2018-12-07 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.