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Helldozer

Creature — Zombie Giant3 generic manaBlack manaBlack manaBlack mana

Most land destruction comes as a one-shot spell you cast and discard; this welds the effect to a 6/5 body that keeps doing it every turn you can pay. Three black mana per activation is steep enough that the Zombie Giant was never going to be a Stone Rain on legs, but the targeting clause is where the design tilts: hit a nonbasic and the creature untaps, ready to go again the same turn if you can afford it. That asymmetry is the whole idea. Against a manabase leaning on dual lands, fetch targets, and utility lands, the activation has no tap-cost ceiling, methodically stripping one nonbasic per three black mana while basics get to sit there untouched (and cost a tap apiece to remove). The more sophisticated the opposing mana, the harder it is to play through, and the basics-only player barely notices. As a 6/5 it also threatens to close the game on its own once the opponent has been ground into mana-screwed inaction, which is the rare land-destruction payoff that does not demand you win in the same motion you set up the lock. It is a heavy triple-black commitment built for the long game, rewarding a deck that floods the board with black mana and converts the surplus into a slow strangle rather than a single explosive turn.

Helldozer (rav)
RAV · #88rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.78
Foil: $6.62
Oracle Text

Rules text

Black manaBlack manaBlack mana, Tap: Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, untap this creature.
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
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