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Beacon Behemoth

Creature — Beast3 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The activated ability tells you exactly who this card was made for: a green deck full of monsters big enough to qualify, where the only problem left is that they tap out to attack and leave you open. Granting vigilance to power-five-or-greater creatures is a narrow lever, but it points at a real friction in fatties-matter green, where every swing is a referendum on whether you can afford to be vulnerable on the crackback. Spending one mana to keep your biggest threat back on defense while it attacks resolves that tension without committing to a permanent enchantment or a static anthem. The 5/3 body is built to be its own first beneficiary: it already clears the power-five threshold the turn it lands, so it can grant itself vigilance and swing-and-guard at once. Three toughness is the cost of that aggression; this is a creature that hits hard and helps the team but folds to almost any removal aimed its way. As a piece of the big-green toolbox it sits in the same conceptual neighborhood as other "reward you for going large" payoffs, effects that only matter once the rest of the deck is already pointed at the top of the curve. Outside that context it asks too much of the board to do anything; inside it, it is a cheap, repeatable way to make a wall of giants attack without flinching.

Beacon Behemoth (con)
CON · #78common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana: Target creature with power 5 or greater gains vigilance until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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