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Den of the Bugbear

Land

Every creature-land runs the same paradox: it costs nothing extra in your list, so waking it up has to sting. This one pays by manufacturing a swarm rather than swinging with a lone beater. The activation yields a modest 3/2, but each attack spawns another Goblin that arrives already sideways and in the red zone, so the payload is a widening board, not a fixed clock. The tokens matter as much as the beater: even if the land itself gets chumped, traded off, or eaten by a blocker, the Goblins it made are still attacking, and a follow-up activation on a later turn keeps compounding the pressure. Its enters-tapped clause fires once you already control two or more other lands, so the tempo tax hits when this is your third land or later, not just on redundant copies: play it early and it slides in untapped; drop it into a developed board and it surrenders a turn's worth of mana. That inverts the usual manland bargain. Earlier designs offered a single recurring threat that dodged sorcery-speed sweepers by mostly sitting still as a land; here the tokens are the point, and they are exactly the chaff a board wipe erases. The design leans toward decks that close before the wrath lands, and it rewards flooding out by turning the excess lands you never wanted to draw into a Goblin horde.

Den of the Bugbear (pafr)
PAFR · #254prare
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Normal: $4.72
Foil: $5.98
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Oracle Text

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If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. Tap: Add Red mana. 3 generic manaRed mana: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 red Goblin creature with "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token that's tapped and attacking." It's still a land.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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