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Challenger Troll

Creature — Troll4 generic manaGreen mana

Menace was designed as an aggressive keyword: a creature that demands two blockers rather than one, taxing the defender's board to survive combat. This inverts that math entirely. Instead of forcing extra blockers, it caps them, stripping the defense's most reliable tool against a heavy hitter, the gang-block. A 6/5 already crashes through most single blockers on rate; the static ability extends that guarantee to every large creature in the army, so a board of 4-power-plus threats can no longer be walled by chump-stacking multiple bodies onto each attacker. Green stompy decks have long relied on trample to make oversized attackers unblockable-in-practice, but trample still lets the defender trade down and eat damage on their terms. This does something structurally different: it forces one-for-one combat math on the whole team at once, turning a wide-but-small defense from a speed bump into an even trade the aggressor is happy to make. The 4-power threshold is the line that keeps the ability from applying to a mana dork or a token; it only rewards the kind of board an aggressive green deck was already building toward. The card's own body clears that bar comfortably, so it enables its own effect the turn it lands, but the design is aimed outward, at the rest of the beatdown, where a single anthem effect or a couple of fat creatures suddenly become far harder to stall.

Challenger Troll (j22)
J22 · #639uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Each creature you control with power 4 or greater can't be blocked by more than one creature.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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