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Drooling Ogre

Creature — Ogre1 generic manaRed mana

A 3/3 for two in red sits well above the curve, and that overstatement is the entire joke: a body priced this cheaply only by making it impossible to hold onto. Casting any artifact spell hands the Ogre to whoever cast it, so in an artifact-saturated game the creature drifts constantly toward whoever is doing the most work on the board. The control-change is the rare kind that punishes the controller for ordinary play rather than for some dedicated combo, and the open question is whether a 3/3 you cannot reliably attack with is worth a card at all. The wrinkle is that the trigger has no allegiance: cast an artifact yourself and you take it back, so the Ogre becomes a shared resource that rewards whoever spends an artifact spell at the right moment to reclaim a blocker or an attacker before combat. Holding it is never passive, because the next artifact cast at the table rips it away again; the way to keep it is to be the last to cast one, then swing before anyone can answer. That is a peculiar incentive structure for a beater, and it never found a deck because the conditions that make the body relevant are exactly the conditions that take it away from you.

Drooling Ogre (dst)
DST · #58common
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, that player gains control of this creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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