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Giant Solifuge

Creature — Insect2 generic manaRed or Green manaRed or Green mana

Shroud on a beater is the rare keyword that cuts both ways, and this body weaponizes the downside out of existence. A 4/1 dies to a stiff breeze, so the usual cost of shroud (you can't protect it either) barely registers: there is nothing to protect that a single point of damage wouldn't have ended anyway. What you get instead is a hasty trampler that no targeted removal spell can touch and no combat trick can pump, which turns it from a creature into a guaranteed clock. Block it with one creature and you eat trample; block it with nothing and you take four; reach for a targeted answer and you find there is no handle to grab. The hybrid cost is the other half of the design, letting it slot into any red-or-green aggressive shell without asking for a specific color of mana. The pairing of glass-cannon stats and shroud is a quietly elegant bit of design, because a creature too fragile to be worth saving turns its own unprotectability into pure evasion rather than a liability. The trade you make is the trade aggression always makes, raw damage now against any resilience to sweepers or sacrifice effects later, and Giant Solifuge commits to the front of that bargain without flinching.

Giant Solifuge (ema)
EMA · #216rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.76
Oracle Text

Rules text

(Red or Green mana can be paid with either Red mana or Green mana.) Trample; haste; shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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