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Abzan Beastmaster

Creature — Dog Shaman2 generic manaGreen mana

The repeatable draw engine that asks you to win the toughness arms race rather than the power one. Most green card-advantage creatures gate on power or on creatures dying; this one keys on the single stat green is best at inflating, then makes the trigger conditional on staying ahead of the table. The tie clause is the part that does the real work: you do not need the toughest creature outright, only to match it, which turns a board full of beefy green bodies into a reliable upkeep cantrip rather than a one-time payoff. The 2/1 frame is the honest cost. The card that draws you cards has the toughness of a glass ornament, so it dies to almost any removal or chump-block math, and the engine it powers asks you to protect a body that contributes almost nothing to the condition it checks. That tension (a draw engine whose own toughness rarely helps whether it draws) is the design's quiet joke and its real constraint. It rewards decks already built around high-toughness creatures and defenders, where the trigger is close to free, and punishes anyone trying to slot it into a generic midrange shell where the largest creature on the board is just as likely to be on the other side.

Abzan Beastmaster (f15)
F15 · #5rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control the creature with the greatest toughness or tied for the greatest toughness.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
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
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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