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Dinotomaton

Artifact Creature — Dinosaur Gnome3 generic manaRed mana

Menace is a keyword that punishes a defender for tapping out or trading down, and this card doubles the pressure by handing it to a second attacker the turn it lands. The entry trigger is the real payload: a 4/3 with menace is already awkward to block profitably, but stapling menace onto another creature you control turns a single evasive body into two, and against a board that has spent its blockers propping up one lane, the second threat is often the one that gets through. It rewards a wide, go-fast board because the value of the trigger scales with what you already have on the table: a lone attacker gains little, but a developed red aggro stance suddenly has two creatures the opponent must double-block or eat. The Dinosaur Gnome typing is the flavor wink (an artifact construct dressed as a saurian), but the strategic identity is plain: it is a menace-granter that carries its own menace body, built to force the kind of chump-heavy, math-losing blocks that let aggressive decks close a game a turn early.

Dinotomaton (lci)
LCI · #144common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, target creature you control gains menace until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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