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Grand Ball Guest

Creature — Human Peasant1 generic manaRed mana

Trample is the word that earns the card its slot. A 2/2 that grows into a 3/3 is unremarkable; a body that grows into a 3/3 pushing damage past a chump blocker changes the arithmetic of a race, and it does so on exactly the turns a red deck is trying to end the game. The Celebration condition asks for two nonland permanents to enter under your control in a turn, which is a low bar when your curve stacks one- and two-drops and your tokens do half the work. Because the bonus resets each turn, this is a recurring reward for staying on the front foot rather than a permanent buff: keep developing and you keep the +1/+1 and trample, stall and it deflates back to a plain 2/2. That asymmetry is the design's whole thesis. Aggressive red already wants to flood the board, and this simply prices its statline to reward the play pattern it was always going to run. There is no ceiling, no combo line, no hidden text: a role-player that sits slightly above rate while you are winning and merely on rate while you are not, doing its job at the precise turns when a point of trample decides the race.

Grand Ball Guest (woe)
WOE · #134common
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
Foil: $0.03
Oracle Text

Rules text

Celebration — This creature gets +1/+1 and has trample as long as two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
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
Legal
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