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Armored Kincaller

Creature — Dinosaur2 generic manaGreen mana

The lifegain here is written to reward a board you were already trying to build. The reveal clause and the control clause are two keys to the same door: you can pay the information cost of showing a Dinosaur still in hand, or skip that entirely if you already control another Dinosaur. The design lesson is in how those two paths track a tribal deck's natural arc. Early, when your hand is full and your board is empty, the reveal keeps the trigger live; later, once you have committed creatures, the control clause makes the reveal a formality and the three life just arrives. It is a payoff that gets easier to satisfy exactly as the game goes long, which inverts most reveal-a-card designs, where the requirement grows more awkward as your hand thins. Strip the tribe out and the trigger simply fails to pay: the body remains a 3/3, the enters-the-battlefield ability still fires, but with no Dinosaur to reveal or control it resolves to nothing. That failure state is the point, not an oversight. The upside is fenced behind a creature-type commitment, so the card only rewards the deck it was built for, and nothing about it leaks value into a pile of unrelated green midrange creatures.

Armored Kincaller (lci)
LCI · #174common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, you may reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand. If you do or if you control another Dinosaur, you gain 3 life.
Legalities

Format Status

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