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Cyclops Tyrant

Creature — Cyclops5 generic manaRed mana

The second line is the genuinely strange one. Intimidate is the evasion red beaters get when a designer wants a creature to slip past chump blockers, restricting the defenders to artifact creatures and creatures that share its color; pairing that with a clause forbidding it from blocking small attackers is a deliberate inversion of how a body this size usually earns its keep. A 3/4 for six is already on the wrong side of the curve, so the design leans hard into a single role: this is a creature meant to win races, not police the ground. It threatens a chunk of damage that only red or artifact bodies can wall, and in exchange it surrenders the defensive flexibility a four-toughness creature would normally offer. The asymmetry is the entire pitch. You cannot tuck it back on defense against a board of one- and two-power attackers, which commits you to the same plan the card commits itself to: keep swinging. It reads as an unusually pointed bit of common-rarity design, a beater that punishes the player who tries to have it both ways, and it functions less like a value creature than a statement about what red is allowed to do with a defensive line.

Cyclops Tyrant (m14)
M14 · #135common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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