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Giant Ox

Creature — Ox1 generic manaWhite mana

A joke wearing the skin of a design experiment. An 0/6 for two mana is, by every normal metric, a creature that deals no combat damage and was never meant to: the classic wall that trades combat presence for a body that shrugs off most burn. The wrinkle is the line that lets it crew Vehicles with its toughness instead of its power, which retroactively turns that 6 from a defensive stat into an offensive one. A creature with zero power is suddenly a strong Vehicle pilot, able to meet a crew requirement of up to 6 while still blocking on the turns it stays home. It is a small, self-contained lesson in how a single conditional rewrite can flip a stat's entire meaning: the same number that reads as pure defense on a wall becomes raw crew capacity here. The design lives or dies on whether there is a Vehicle worth pointing all that toughness at, which fixes it as a build-around rather than a staple. Left in a vacuum it is a wall with a punchline; attached to the right piece of machinery, it is a two-mana engine that flatly ignores the power-based crew tax most Vehicle decks are built around paying.

Giant Ox (j22)
J22 · #188common
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature crews Vehicles using its toughness rather than its power.
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
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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