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Autarch Mammoth

Creature — Elephant Mount4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Saddle asks you to tap five power of other creatures to make this Mount charge, and this design answers that cost with something that pays it forward: a 3/3 token every time it enters, and another every time it attacks saddled. The token engine is what makes the saddle math survivable. Most Mounts strand you between two boards, wanting a wide team to enable the mechanic while contributing nothing to that width themselves. Here the enter trigger seeds the board before you ever need to saddle, and each saddled attack replaces some of the power you tapped down, so the requirement stops being a tax and starts being a loop. The friction that remains is real: saddling only at sorcery speed means the tokens have to be committed before combat, tapping down blockers you might want back, and the five-power threshold still wants a preexisting board rather than building one from zero on turn six. But the shape of the reward is unusually generous for the keyword. Green's go-wide token producers have long lived on repeatable value bodies, and this slots into that lineage as a creature that funds its own activation cost in Elephants, turning a mechanic built around tapping your team into one that keeps replenishing it.

Autarch Mammoth (dft)
DFT · #153uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters and whenever it attacks while saddled, create a 3/3 green Elephant creature token. Saddle 5 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 5 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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