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Colossus of the Blood Age

Artifact Creature — Construct4 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

A body that pays you twice: once for showing up, once for leaving. The enter trigger is straightforward Boros reach, three damage to each opponent and three life back, the kind of stabilizing burst that closes out a race. What makes the card worth a second look is the death trigger, which turns the construct's inevitable trip to the graveyard into a rummage that nets a card: discard any number, draw that many plus one. That structure quietly changes how you want it to die. A blocked or sacrificed Colossus is not a loss so much as a hand-refill, so the six-mana investment keeps working after the 6/6 is gone. Red-white has spent most of its history as the color pair least interested in card advantage, leaning on tempo and aggression to make up the difference; stapling a loot-with-profit onto a beater is a deliberate patch on that weakness, giving an aggressive deck a way to reload without leaving its lane. The discard-then-draw shape also rewards a graveyard payoff or a hand full of dead lands late, letting you dump excess and dig toward action. It asks to be traded, chumped into, or fed to a sacrifice effect rather than protected, which is an unusual thing to ask of a creature this size.

Colossus of the Blood Age (sos)
SOS · #181uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to each opponent and you gain 3 life. When this creature dies, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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