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Angler Turtle

Creature — Turtle5 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The static half of the text is a wall on defense: a hexproof 5/7 that targeted removal cannot answer and combat cannot profitably crack. The dynamic half is where the design gets strange. Forcing every opposing creature to attack each combat inverts the usual defensive stance of a big-butt blocker. Instead of sitting back and daring an opponent to swing, the turtle rewrites their turn: their army must charge into a body that outsizes most of what a curve-out board can field, and their tapped-out attackers cannot stay home to block the following turn. It turns a passive stat line into an active tax on the opponent's tempo, punishing wide boards that would rather hold back and forcing bad attacks into open blockers elsewhere on your side. The combination is a little clumsy at seven mana and mono-blue color identity, and the compulsion-to-attack effect has a long lineage in cards that goad or draft the opponent's aggression, but few have paired that pressure with a body this hard to remove. What makes it read as a puzzle piece rather than a finisher is that it does nothing to close a game on its own; it reshapes how the opponent is allowed to use their creatures, then leaves you to convert the openings that reshaping creates.

Angler Turtle (pz2)
PZ2 · #70769rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Hexproof Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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