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Baloth Woodcrasher

Creature — Beast4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Landfall's loudest demonstration. Most cards built around the keyword pay out incrementally: a token here, a +1/+1 counter there, a point of life. This one fires a +4/+4 trample pump every time a land enters under your control, which turns a single big-mana turn into a lethal swing. Drop your land for the turn, follow with a second from a ramp spell, then an additional-land effect: each is another +4/+4 stacked onto the same body, and the trample means none of it gets soaked up by a single chump. The 4/4 frame matters precisely because it is unremarkable on its own; the card is engineered to do nothing impressive until a land arrives, then to do far too much. It also rewards an instant-speed wrinkle most landfall payoffs cannot exploit. Land drops are a once-per-turn, sorcery-speed affair, but effects that put lands directly onto the battlefield (a cracked fetchland, an instant-speed ramp spell) trigger the pump mid-combat, shifting the point of the trigger from "ramp toward something" to "the land itself is the burst." That is the design tension of high-cost landfall made literal: the lands you were already going to find become the finisher, and the only ceiling on the damage is how many you can chain into one turn.

Baloth Woodcrasher (zen)
ZEN · #157uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $1.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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