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Cavern Stomper

Creature — Dinosaur4 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

A 7/7 for six that scries when it lands is exactly the kind of body green has printed at common and uncommon for years: a fine top-end beater with a small consolation trigger to smooth the draw. The design earns a second look for its second ability, which answers the recurring problem with fatties this size. A vanilla 7/7 gets chump-blocked by any token, any mana dork, any one-drop, and stalls out; here, three mana and a green turns it into a creature that walks past every blocker with power 2 or less, which is most of what an opponent has spare to throw in the way. This is not true evasion (a real 3/3 or a 5/5 still stops it cold), but it converts the ground clutter that usually neutralizes big green creatures into meaningless speed bumps. Because the activation lives at instant speed, the threat of it shapes how an opponent commits to combat: leave up two small blockers and you may find them useless the moment the green mana taps. The scry keeps the six mana from feeling like a coin flip on the top-end, making the card do two things the turn it arrives rather than one.

Cavern Stomper (lci)
LCI · #177common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.) 3 generic manaGreen mana: This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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