Endangered Armodon

A 4/5 for four mana is a body well above the green curve of its era, and the drawback is the whole point: this is a stat line bought with a deckbuilding tax most players cannot pay. You sacrifice the elephant the moment you control any creature with toughness 2 or less, which is to say the moment you play almost any mana dork, any aggressive one-drop, any small token, any utility creature green normally wants alongside its beaters. The card is a study in restriction design from a period when Wizards was still pricing oversized bodies against punishing conditions rather than against finality counters or sorcery-speed limits. To get the rate, you have to build a deck of nothing but large creatures, which gnaws at the flexibility that makes the rate worth wanting. The trigger is also a constant state-based check, not a one-time test at resolution, and it carries no intervening "if" clause: once the condition is met, the sacrifice goes on the stack and resolves regardless of what happens to the small creature afterward. Bounce the offending token in response and the Armodon dies anyway. That is the trap working as designed. A premium body chained to a clause that polices your other slots is the experiment the card exists to run, and the verdict the format eventually returned is why oversized green creatures stopped carrying drawbacks this sharp.