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Glade Watcher

Creature — Elemental1 generic manaGreen mana

A 3/3 body for two mana is aggressively costed; the defender keyword is the tax that pays for it. The wrinkle is how that tax gets lifted. Formidable does not check a single creature or a board state you maintain turn over turn; it gauges total power across everything you control, and the moment that number reaches eight, a single green mana flips a wall into an attacker. The design logic is a green-aggro escalation mechanic worn as a creature: early, this is a stout blocker you deploy ahead of curve and dare opponents to push through; later, once the board has filled out and the rest of your creatures have already done their counting, it stops being a wall and starts swinging for three with the rest of them. The cost structure rewards going wide and going tall at once, because the threshold cares only about cumulative power, not creature count, so a couple of fat threats unlock it as readily as a flood of small ones. What it gives up is reliability on an empty board: alone, it is a 3/3 that cannot attack, and against a deck that trades down your other bodies, the activation may never come online. That conditional is the honest price of a beefy two-drop that turns into a beater whenever the green deck is already doing what green decks want to do.

Glade Watcher (plst)
PLST · #DTK-188common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender Formidable — Green mana: This creature can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
Legal
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