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Gnarlback Rhino

Creature — Rhino2 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

Green rarely gets to draw cards, so when it does the design almost always ties the payoff to combat rather than to the library. Here the trigger fires on any spell you cast that targets this body, which quietly turns green's fight-and-pump verbs into cantrips: a growth spell that would ordinarily just swell it now also refills your hand, and a protective trick that saves it from removal replaces itself in the process. The clever part is the inversion of a familiar risk. Aura-and-pump strategies normally court card disadvantage, because every spell committed to one creature evaporates if that creature dies. Feed this one instead and each investment draws its own replacement, softening the two-for-one that trample-beater decks otherwise dread. The 4/4 trample body is deliberately plain on its own; it earns nothing extra unless a deck is already inclined to stack enhancements onto a single threat. Note the wording is open by design: it cares that a spell targets it, not what the spell does or which color casts it, so even removal you aim at your own creature technically qualifies too. That breadth is the payoff, not an oversight. What you get is a green card-advantage engine wearing an ordinary beater's stat line, priced so the drawing only matters if you were going to spend spells here anyway.

Gnarlback Rhino (fdn)
FDN · #638uncommon
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Normal: $0.08
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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Other printings

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