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Gargadon

Creature — Beast5 generic manaRed manaRed mana

A callback to Greater Gargadon, but the reverse construction: where the original sat under suspend as a sacrifice payoff you could unleash at instant speed, this one uses the mechanic as a genuine cost discount. Pay two mana up front, wait four upkeeps, and a hasty 7/5 trampler arrives for nothing more. The math is the point. Seven mana of beef, delivered on the installment plan, sidesteps the tempo tax that keeps big red creatures out of aggressive shells. Suspend also rewrites the timing window: the creature spends four turns in exile where sorcery-speed removal cannot touch it, then resolves with haste to swing the turn it lands, dodging the summoning-sickness delay that a hard-cast fatty pays. Those four counters are a long lead, long enough that a control deck can build around the eventual arrival while an aggressive one commits to it as top-end it can afford to deploy early. The plain trample body is deliberately unremarkable; the interest is entirely in how it gets to the battlefield and when. Read as small text, it plays as a clock, the suspend cost quietly turning a clunky finisher into something an early curve can carry.

Gargadon (mh2)
MH2 · #128common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Suspend 4—1 generic manaRed mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 1 generic manaRed mana and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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