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Ancient Bronze Dragon

Creature — Elder Dragon5 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The die roll is the whole point, and it lands in the least random place possible: on the back of a 7/7 flyer that has already connected. By the time you're rolling the d20, the combat math is over; the dragon hit, the trigger is on the stack, and the only question left is how much bigger the board gets. That sequencing keeps it clear of the coin-flip and chaos cards that gamble on whether anything happens at all. Here the payoff is guaranteed and only the magnitude varies, so even a low roll fattens two creatures and a high one buries an opponent under twenty-plus counters split across a pair of bodies. The +1/+1 counters are permanent, which turns a single unanswered swing into a runaway threat that keeps growing every combat: a snowball engine dressed as a dice game. Green's counter-doubling and proliferate effects push the numbers into absurd territory, and the two-target clause lets the payout dodge a single removal spell by spreading across creatures. The design honesty is that all of it is gated behind connecting for combat damage with a seven-mana ground-and-air threat; nothing triggers from the stack, from a sacrifice, or at instant speed. You have to attack, and you have to get through, and the reward for doing both is a roll of the dice that only ever helps.

Ancient Bronze Dragon (clb)
CLB · #369mythic
Pricing
Normal: $26.24
Foil: $39.92
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put X +1/+1 counters on each of up to two target creatures, where X is the result.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

3 sets
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