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Belligerent Brontodon

Creature — Dinosaur5 generic manaGreen manaWhite mana

The damage-assignment rewrite is one of the rarer effects in the game, and this Dinosaur is its green-white statement: every creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness instead of its power. Because the swap applies to all combat damage, it works on defense as fully as offense, so a 0/4 wall that once merely absorbed hits now trades up into whatever it blocks. The 4/6 body demonstrates the principle both ways, swinging and blocking for six. But the payoff scales with what already surrounds it: creatures with lopsided stats, the high-toughness bodies and the anything never built to attack, become threats without gaining a single point. It inverts the combat-math vocabulary players carry, where power is the offensive number and toughness the defensive one; under this Dinosaur, the two trade jobs across your whole side of the table. The cost is the friction: at seven mana it arrives late, and the effect does nothing on an empty board, so it asks you to already have wide or tall toughness in play before it lands. That makes it a build-around centerpiece rather than a curve-filler, the kind of card whose ability outstrips its rate. It is the green-white anchor for a deck that wants to stack toughness and then weaponize it, turning a defensive posture into a lethal one on both halves of the combat step.

Belligerent Brontodon (xln)
XLN · #218uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.20
Foil: $0.54
Oracle Text

Rules text

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Legalities

Format Status

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