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Agonasaur Rex

Creature — Dinosaur3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The cycling clause is where the design lives, not the eight-power body attached to it. Green has long used cycling as a floor beneath fatties (Krosan Tusker being the canonical example, drawing a card and fetching a land when the top-end slot is dead), but this pushes the concept in a different direction: the discard doesn't just replace itself, it turns into a combat trick. Two +1/+1 counters, trample, and indestructible on a target creature or Vehicle makes the cycle a lasting buff paired with a one-turn pump, and the indestructible clause specifically lets a threatened attacker walk through a block or a wrath, all for the cycling cost of two and green rather than the five it takes to put the 8/8 on the battlefield. That splits the card into two decisions that rarely compete: hard-cast it as a hard-to-block finisher, or feed it to a creature already carrying the game when you'd rather not spend the full five mana. Trample lives on both halves, which is the quiet consistency here: the counters make an evasive threat bigger, and the body you discarded would have trampled anyway. What keeps it from being a free roll is that the cycle costs one more than green's baseline draw-a-card price and the buff targets only creatures and Vehicles, so the graveyard-value ceiling is real but narrow. Neither mode is the "real" card: it's a genuinely two-headed threat, and the mode you don't pick is always the one you're weighing.

Agonasaur Rex (dft)
DFT · #542rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Cycling 2 generic manaGreen mana (2 generic manaGreen mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature or Vehicle. It gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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