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Clackbridge Troll

Creature — Troll3 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

A folktale rendered as a negotiation, and the negotiation is the whole design. An 8/8 with trample and haste is a body that ends games unattended, so the card hands your opponent an out: three chump blockers on the way in, then a standing offer to feed the troll every combat. The tension is that both halves of the deal favor you. The Goats are your opponent's creatures, but they are terrible ones, and the troll only taps if a creature dies to pay it, meaning your opponent chooses between eating eight trampling damage or trading resources to buy a turn while you gain life and draw a card. Either line advances your board or your hand; the sacrifice clause is optional for them and profitable for you no matter which way they answer it. The trick is that the toll is theirs to pay, so a bare board or an opponent unwilling to sacrifice simply eats the attack, and the Goats they were given rot as speed bumps at best. It reads like a drawback stapled to a beater, but every branch of the fairy-tale bargain leaves you ahead: the giveaway is the flavor, and the flavor is the trap.

Clackbridge Troll (eld)
ELD · #353rare
Pricing
Normal: $3.27
Foil: $6.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample, haste When this creature enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.
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

Other printings

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