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Giant Killer // Chop Down

Creature — Human Peasant // Instant — AdventureWhite mana2 generic manaWhite mana

White has always had a hard time killing a genuinely large creature outright, and Chop Down is the concession to that weakness: a hard removal spell walled off behind a power-four floor, so it hits the ramped fatty a small board cannot punch through and leaves everything smaller alone. Bundled onto the same card is a fragile Human who taps down a blocker or an attacker for two mana and the tap, repeatable and modest, the sort of body that trades in combat and rarely wins a game by itself. Adventure is what lets both effects occupy one slot without either half compromising the other. You cast the removal when a giant threatens, then the little Human waits in exile for a later turn when tapping something matters more than raw pressure. The sequencing is the whole appeal: a single card that plays as a topdecked answer against ramp on one draw and a grinding tempo tool on another, the choice deferred to the moment rather than locked in at deckbuilding. The power-four restriction is deliberate, drawing the line so Chop Down only ever answers the things too big for white to trade with in combat. And the split leans hard into its folktale conceit, the peasant who fells the giant, rewarding a clear read of the board over any one memorized line.

Giant Killer // Chop Down (peld)
PELD · #14prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic manaWhite mana, Tap: Tap target creature. // Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
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
Legal
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