Craw Giant

Four colored pips in the cost is the design tell. Rampage was the era's attempt to make big creatures feel dangerous to gang-block, a combat-math wrinkle that punished the defender for committing the second and third blocker, and the keyword needed a frame heavy enough that the bonus actually mattered. Craw Giant is that frame at its purest: a 6/4 trampler that grows by two in each direction for every blocker beyond the first, so a single blocker leaves it at 6/4 (the bonus does nothing), two blockers make it an 8/6, three make it a 10/8, and the trample clause shovels the surplus through. The catch is the mana cost, which asks for mono-green so emphatically that no fixing of the period could honestly deliver it on curve. That tension is the artifact worth studying. Rampage was designed as a defender's-dilemma mechanic, but the cards carrying it were costed as if the dilemma alone justified the rate, and the format never quite agreed: hold back a lone blocker, or let it through unblocked, and the keyword sits inert. The mechanic faded after a handful of appearances, supplanted in later decades by conditional pumps the active player actually controls, bloodthirst and battle cry among them, each moving the bonus off the blocking step and onto the attacker's own terms. Craw Giant sits at the high end of the experiment: the body the mechanic needed, at the cost the mechanic could not justify.