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Ashenmoor Gouger

Creature — Elemental WarriorBlack or Red manaBlack or Red manaBlack or Red mana

Trade defense for a faster clock, and you get one of the cleanest expressions of that bargain: four power and four toughness for three pips, with the price printed in a single line of text. It cannot block. A body this size for this little is aggressive math, but the restriction names exactly who the card belongs to: the player pushing damage, not the one absorbing it. A creature that swings for four and never plays back on defense is a clock, not a wall. Casting it off either black or red means it asks nothing beyond a partly aggressive deck in one of two colors, so any board leaning on those pips can field it without bending its mana. That flexibility also keeps the card generic: it slots in as a beater rather than a centerpiece, no deck wrapped around it. The whole pitch is the rate against the drawback, and the drawback only bites in the races you were already losing: against a deck that out-attacks you, an attacker that cannot stand on defense was never going to save you anyway.

Ashenmoor Gouger (mm2)
MM2 · #190uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.04
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't block.
Legalities

Format Status

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