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Champion of Lambholt

Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The interesting thing is which half of the text does the work. The second line, the counter accrual on each creature you control entering, is the engine everybody points to: drop a token-maker and the body balloons. But the first line is the one that wins games, and it scales off the very growth the second line provides. As this creature's power climbs, the threshold for what can block your team climbs with it, so a wide board of small creatures becomes effectively unblockable not because they trample or fly but because nothing on the other side is big enough to legally stop them. That is a rare kind of evasion: not granted to the attackers, but stripped from the defenders, calibrated to a single growing number. It is also the reason the card reads as a one-creature combo with any go-wide engine. Each token that resolves does double duty, adding a counter and raising the gate, and once the power is high enough the opponent's blockers are simply removed from the math regardless of how many they have. The 1/1 starting body is the cost: this needs other creatures to do anything at all, and removal aimed at it before it grows is clean and cheap. The payoff for protecting it is a board state where combat math stops being a negotiation and becomes a foregone conclusion.

Champion of Lambholt (cm2)
CM2 · #134rare
Pricing
Normal: $3.42
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block creatures you control. Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
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