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A-Rulik Mons, Warren Chief

Legendary Creature — Goblin1 generic manaRed manaGreen manaGreen mana

The clever part is the coin-flip built into a single peek: peek at the top card, and either it's a land you drop onto the battlefield tapped, or it isn't and you get a Goblin. There's no failure state and no whiff, because the ability resolves one way or the other every time it fires. That structure quietly solves a problem that plagues green ramp creatures, which often stall out once your lands are on the board with nothing left to fetch. Here the ramp mode and the go-wide mode share a slot and trade off automatically depending on what your library is holding, so the card keeps generating value whether you're flooded or starved. The enters-or-attacks trigger doubles the frequency: this isn't a one-and-done ramp body but an engine that pays out again every combat, and the 4/4 with menace is a real clock rather than a token generator hiding behind a wall. Menace matters for the same reason it matters on any recurring attacker; it forces two blockers into a board that this card is actively widening with Goblins on the turns it doesn't hit land. The design lands on a Gruul creature that reads as a value engine and plays as a threat, folding the ramp-versus-aggression decision that a Goblin deck usually has to make in deckbuilding into a top-of-library dice roll it makes every turn instead.

A-Rulik Mons, Warren Chief (dmu)
DMU · #A-217uncommon
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever Rulik Mons, Warren Chief enters or attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you didn't put a card onto the battlefield this way, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
N/A
Vintage
N/A
Commander
N/A
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
N/A
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
N/A
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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