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Boldwyr Heavyweights

Creature — Giant Warrior2 generic manaRed manaRed mana

An 8/8 trampler for four mana is a rate that should be flatly broken, and the only way to print it was to hand the cost directly to the people across the table. The enters trigger is one of red's clearest experiments in symmetrical generosity: you get the giant, but each opponent gets to tutor any creature straight onto the battlefield, no mana paid, no restrictions on what they find. That is not a downside to be managed so much as a deal to be brokered, and it lands in the lineage of cards like Hunted Wumpus that treat the drawback as the entire design statement rather than a tax on the body. The interesting wrinkle is who actually benefits: in a one-on-one game it is a near-suicidal gift, since a single opponent picks their best creature with no downside; the more players at the table, the more the politics fracture, because every opponent's free creature is also a threat to every other opponent. Reading the room matters more than reading the stat line, which is a strange demand for an 8/8 to make. Whether the trample beats are worth arming the entire table is the open question the card was built to pose, not answer.

Boldwyr Heavyweights (mor)
MOR · #85rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.27
Foil: $16.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample When this creature enters, each opponent may search their library for a creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
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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