Almighty Brushwagg

The joke arrived years before the card did: Brushwagg was a beloved bit of gag flavor from the early sets, a goofy creature type that never amounted to anything, and the "Almighty" prefix is a wink at fans who remembered it. What makes the card land as more than a callback is that the design is honest about its own modesty. A one-drop with trample and a firebreathing-style pump that costs four mana per activation is not a threat you build around; it is a mana sink for the late game, a body that turns a flooded hand into incremental pressure. The pump is symmetrical in the sense that it never scales with anything: no counters, no per-activation discount, just a flat +3/+3 you buy as many times as your mana allows. Trample is the only piece doing structural work, converting each oversized swing into damage that a single chump blocker cannot fully absorb. It is a rare thing to see a design commit so fully to being a running gag while still shipping a functional creature: the flavor is the point, and the stat line exists mostly to let the joke stand on a real battlefield rather than in a novelty slot.