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Ferocious Tigorilla

Creature — Cat Ape3 generic manaRed mana

Common-rarity evasion resolved as the creature enters, which is a smaller decision than it looks and a more honest one than a keyword-soup body would be. The pick between trample and menace is a read on the board in front of you: menace when the defender has one fat blocker (a single creature cannot legally block it at all), trample when they have a wall of small chumps you want to punch excess damage through. Neither is strictly better, and that balance is the design's whole point; you size up the specific board rather than inheriting a fixed profile. Building the evasion as counters rather than static keywords is where it gets interesting. A counter sits on the creature as a physical object other cards can double, move, or proliferate, so the same 4/3 that plays as vanilla-plus in a curve deck becomes live in a build that treats counters as a resource. That the choice locks at entry rather than at cast also gives it more surface than it needs: flicker it, reanimate it, or blink it and the choice comes back fresh, reading a new board instead of a printed one. Most of the time none of this fires; the creature attacks, the counter does its one job, and nobody thinks about it again. But choice-of-counter is a compact, reusable piece of design vocabulary, and printing it on a plain aggressive body is how you seed it without overcommitting.

Ferocious Tigorilla (iko)
IKO · #115common
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature enters with your choice of a trample counter or a menace counter on it. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

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