Role

Role
Enchantment Type
(Subtype for enchantment cards)
Statistics	0 cards 4 Cursed Role creation cards 25% 50% 25% 6 Monster Role creation cards 33.3% 16.7% 33.3% 16.7% 4 Royal Role creation cards 50% 25% 25% 4 Sorcerer Role creation cards 25% 50% 25% 1 Virtuous Role creation card 100% 7 Wicked Role cards 71.4% 28.6% 3 Young Hero Role creation cards 33.3% 66.7%
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Roles are aura enchantment type predefined tokens introduced in Wilds of Eldraine.

Description

Roles are colorless aura enchantment tokens, with "Enchant creature", that attach to creatures upon creation giving them different abilities. No more than one Role controlled by the same player can be attached to the same creature at the same time. If a new Role is attached to that creature by the same player, the old one is put into the graveyard and then ceases to exist. A single creature can have several Roles if each Role was created by a different player.

List of Roles

The Roles are structurally important to the set, and as such the mechanic is balanced across colors by volume but each particular role is distributed to certain, usually allied, colors. Cursed Role is a downside Aura, while Young Hero additionally supports Celebration, with these two being the ones that do not add the typical +1/+1.

• Cursed — associated with — Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 1/1.
• Monster — associated with — Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.
• Royal — associated with — Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward .
• Sorcerer — associated with — Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1."
• Wicked — associated with — Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life."
• Young Hero — associated with — Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature attacks, if its toughness is 3 or less, put a +1/+1 counter on it."

The Commander decks have a seventh role:

• Virtuous — Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control.

Trivia

In vision design, R&D gave a lot of cards theater themed playtest names as a meta joke about the role mechanic. Most of these were replaced (as intended) but a few ended up in the final set like Gylwain, Casting Director and A Tale for the Ages.

Rules

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 111.10. Some effects instruct a player to create a predefined token. These effects use the definition below to determine the characteristics the token is created with. The effect that creates a predefined token may also modify or add to the predefined characteristics.
  • 111.10a A Treasure token is a colorless Treasure artifact token with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”
  • 111.10b A Food token is a colorless Food artifact token with “{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.”
  • 111.10c A Gold token is a colorless Gold artifact token with “Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”
  • 111.10d A Walker token is a 2/2 black Zombie creature token named Walker.
  • 111.10e A Shard token is a colorless Shard enchantment token with “{2}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 1, then draw a card.”
  • 111.10f A Clue token is a colorless Clue artifact token with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”
  • 111.10g A Blood token is a colorless Blood artifact token with “{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”
  • 111.10h A Powerstone token is a colorless Powerstone artifact token with “{T}: Add {C}. This mana can’t be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.”
  • 111.10i An Incubator token is a transforming double-faced token. Its front face is a colorless Incubator artifact with “{2}: Transform this artifact.” Its back face is a 0/0 colorless Phyrexian artifact creature named Phyrexian Token.
  • 111.10j A Cursed Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Cursed with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 1/1.”
  • 111.10k A Monster Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Monster with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.”
  • 111.10m A Royal Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Royal with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}.”
  • 111.10n A Sorcerer Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Sorcerer with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ‘Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.’”
  • 111.10p A Virtuous Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Virtuous with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control.”
  • 111.10q A Wicked Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Wicked with enchant creature, “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1,” and “When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.”
  • 111.10r A Young Hero Role token is a colorless Aura Role enchantment token named Young Hero with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature has ‘Whenever this creature attacks, if its toughness is 3 or less, put a +1/+1 counter on it.’”
  • 111.10s A Map token is a colorless Map artifact token with “{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.” See rule 701.40, “Explore.”
  • 111.10t A Junk token is a colorless Junk artifact token with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.”

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Cursed	Colorless	Enchantment — Aura Role		Enchant creature Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 1/1.	Asinine Antics Croaking Curse Cursed Courtier Diminisher Witch Gadwick's First Duel Spiteful Hexmage
Monster	Colorless	Enchantment — Aura Role		Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.	Become Brutes Curse of the Werefox Faunsbane Troll Giant Inheritance Guard Change Gylwain, Casting Director Monstrous Rage Syr Armont, the Redeemer
Royal	Colorless	Enchantment — Aura Role		Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward .	Betroth the Beast Charmed Clothier Gylwain, Casting Director Redtooth Genealogist Royal Treatment
Sorcerer	Colorless	Enchantment — Aura Role		Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1."	Gylwain, Casting Director Living Lectern Spellbook Vendor Splashy Spellcaster Unassuming Sage
Virtuous	Colorless	Enchantment — Aura Role		Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control.	Ellivere of the Wild Court
Wicked	Colorless	Enchantment — Aura Role		Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.	Charming Scoundrel Dunbarrow Revivalist Eriette's Whisper Lord Skitter's Blessing Not Dead After All Price of Beauty Shatter the Oath Twisted Fealty Twisted Sewer-Witch Witch's Mark The Witch's Vanity
Young Hero	Colorless	Enchantment — Aura Role		Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature attacks, if its toughness is 3 or less, put a +1/+1 counter on it."	Cut In Embereth Veteran Merry Bards Protective Parents Return Triumphant