Bebop & Rocksteady

A 7/5 for three that needs feeding, and TMT is unusually generous about the feeding. The discard-or-sacrifice tax that reads like a liability becomes low rent here because the common pool is stuffed with permanents BG Sacrifice was already going to spend: the Food from Anchovy & Banana Pizza, the utility lands you crack for value (Escape Tunnel, TCRI Building), spent equipment, the chaff Putrid Pals leaves behind. Each attack converts something you weren't using into seven damage on a body the medium-speed common map cannot block. The format sizes its bodies at 2/3s and 3/2s, and none of them trade up into this.

That makes it the payoff that justifies committing to a sacrifice shell rather than treating the trigger as a goodstuff splash. The hybrid cost asks only for black or green, so it stays open in your early picks: take it P1P1 and let it pull you toward Golgari rather than locking you in. Once you're committed, it goes ahead of the format's removal commons, because a clock that closes in three swings demands an answer most tables can't reliably draw.

The discard half is the weaker mode, and worth saying plainly. TMT has no common payoff that turns a pitched card into value, so discarding is straight card disadvantage on the turns your board has nothing expendable. Discipline the deckbuilding so those turns are rare.

Stomped by the Foot kills it, but only the black drafter at the table draws that line. The genuine drag is the topdeck on an empty board against UR Sneak or a flier-heavy GU build: the trigger sacrifices a permanent (a land works, the body stays), but a ground 7/5 does nothing against an evasive clock. Maindeck always; just keep a second plan against the sky.

A discard or sacrifice outlet attached to a 7/5 for three, which puts it in Golgari aristocrats and discard-matters decks that want their costs paid by something they were already doing. The trouble is that the body is rate without direction in the singleton format: a commander built around it has to want every attack and block to fuel a payoff, and most Golgari lists already have a sacrifice outlet that does not also tax their own swings. Goes in the 99 of a discard or sacrifice deck that needs another enabler stapled to a beater. Cut from anything that just wanted a cheap attacker.

A three-mana 7/5 in Golgari that wants a sacrifice-and-discard shell already built around it: aristocrats, delirium, reanimator, anything that treats both halves of the combat tax as fuel rather than cost. Modern has the support for that and still does not run this; it is legal but has not registered in tracked play this season. The body is real, but the constant feed makes it a liability in a format where Golgari already has cleaner threats, and the payoff decks have tighter three-drops. No archetype is asking for it right now.

A three-mana 7/5 in Golgari for the sacrifice and discard decks that can turn the attack-or-block tax into fuel, the kind of payoff aristocrats or a graveyard shell would actually want. Standard so far has not built that shell at any real volume, and the card sits on the fringe when it shows up, usually as a two-of in a brew rather than a fixture. The cost meters out every combat, and most current Golgari lists would rather run a threat that does not ask them to spend resources to attack with it.

A three-mana body for Golgari sacrifice and discard shells in Pioneer that want a big attacker tied into effects they already run. The forced choice on attack or block looks like a payoff, but the format does not have a tuned aristocrats or delirium deck that wants this specific creature over its existing threats. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. For now it sits in brewer's piles and casual sacrifice lists rather than any built-out competitive shell.

A 7/5 for three mana in a format where Black Lotus generates three mana on turn zero and Ancestral Recall buys three cards for one. The body is large, but Vintage does not measure creatures by stat efficiency; it asks what they do against the Power Nine and the Workshops engine, and a beater that taxes its own attacks does neither. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. Noise.

A 7/5 for three is a real rate, but Legacy does not pay three mana for a vanilla beater with a recurring upkeep on combat. The relevant baseline is the format's actual one-drops: Tarmogoyf, Dragon's Rage Channeler, and the threats that come down turn one and start attacking immediately. Anything at three mana in a colored manabase is also exposed to Wasteland on the way to the third land, and Force of Will answers it for free. The forced discard-or-sacrifice clause is fuel for a graveyard shell in theory, but Legacy's graveyard decks already have cheaper, faster engines and do not want a three-mana body that taxes its own attacks. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. Does not clear the bar.