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Dairy Cow

Creature — CowGreen mana

A plain 2/1 for a single green mana is already a complete creature, which is precisely why the parenthetical is funny: Grazing type bolts an elaborate, board-scaling reminder onto a body that needed nothing. Five milk counters per Forest and Plant you control reads like a serious enters-with-counters payoff, the kind that keys a creature's stockpile off your permanent count, and then the design declines to attach a single consequence. No ability spends milk counters, no other card references them, and nothing on the Cow cares how many it has. The counters just accumulate, dairy the Cow will never sell. The work went into making a non-ability convincing enough to parse twice; you read the clause expecting a mechanic and reach the end having found none. It sits in the lineage of joke cards engineered to look functional, mimicking the shape of a real payoff and delivering set dressing. Mechanically this is a static enters-the-battlefield clause, not a triggered ability, so there is no stack to hold and no window to respond in; the counters arrive with the Cow and stay inert. Strip them off entirely and you have the same fine one-drop. The milk is decoration layered over a creature that was finished before the reminder text began.

Dairy Cow (mb2)
MB2 · #574rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.33
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Grazing type (This creature enters the battlefield with five milk counters on it for each Forest and/or Plant you control.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
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Pioneer
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Modern
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Legacy
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Vintage
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Commander
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Pauper
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Brawl
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Historic
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Alchemy
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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