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Ghalta and Mavren

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Vampire3 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaWhite manaWhite mana

Two flagship legends fused into a single 3 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaWhite manaWhite mana body, and the fusion is more than a novelty: the attack trigger fires off the swing rather than the cast, which is the whole point. The value is metered per combat, not front-loaded, so the 12/12 has to survive to a second and third attack to run away with a game. The two modes cut in opposite directions and reward opposite boards. The Dinosaur mode reads the greatest power among your other attackers and stamps out a tapped-and-attacking X/X copy of that number (a fresh trampling body, not a duplicate of the creature itself), which is why it wants one big threat to size off. The Vampire mode counts heads instead, minting a 1/1 lifelinker for every other creature swinging, which is why it wants a crowd. So the card is a token engine that reads your board and asks which shape it already is, then doubles down: a go-tall board leans Dinosaur, a wide board leans Vampire. The lifelink line also buys back the tempo the trample line spends, so the two halves cover each other's weakness across a long game. What holds the design together is that the trigger doesn't cost mana or ask for a card; the only resource it spends is the requirement that you commit real attackers first, which is precisely the tax that keeps a 12/12 that scales and swarms from resolving into an immediate win.

Ghalta and Mavren (mom)
MOM · #307rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.41
Foil: $3.06
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Whenever you attack, choose one — • Create a tapped and attacking X/X green Dinosaur creature token with trample, where X is the greatest power among other attacking creatures. • Create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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