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Graxiplon

Creature — Beast5 generic manaBlue mana

Evasion that runs the tribal era's logic backwards. The usual unblockable condition keys off the controller's investment (pay mana, attach an aura, satisfy a threshold); this one ignores the controller's board entirely and reads only the defender's. Against a focused tribal deck (three or more creatures sharing a type) it is a plain 3/4 that has to fight through whatever stands in front of it. Against a board of mismatched types, a goblin next to a beast next to a wizard, it simply walks in. So the card is a soft hoser pointed at the player who failed to commit to a type: the more scattered your opponent's creatures, the freer this one connects, and a heavily tribal board shuts it off completely. That inversion is the design idea worth noting. In an era built around rewarding creature-type commitment, here is a card whose evasion is a tax on the player who didn't commit, with no demand on its own pilot's deck. The rate is forgettable and the condition is trivially met by any deck with a tribal spine, which is most of what such a format produces, so Graxiplon never read as a real threat. As a reading of what tribal-aware evasion could look like from the opposite direction, though, it is a tidy artifact: punishment for diversity rather than reward for focus, with the condition living wholly on the far side of the table.

Graxiplon (ons)
ONS · #86uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $1.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't be blocked unless defending player controls three or more creatures that share a creature type.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
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
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