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Hulking Ogre

Creature — Ogre2 generic manaRed mana

A 3/3 for 2 generic manaRed mana was, in an early era of red beatdown, a perfectly aggressive body, the kind of creature red would happily run if not for the price such a rate would demand elsewhere. The "can't block" clause is that price: it shaves nothing off the offense while stripping the defensive flexibility that lets a vanilla creature hold a board. That tradeoff runs through one of the oldest levers in the design toolbox, the same one driving Juggernaut and the various "must attack" beaters: give up the back half of a creature's job to push the front half above curve. For a deck already committed to racing, the downside is invisible; this was never going to sit home on defense anyway. For anyone hoping to play it as a flexible midrange body, the restriction does exactly what it was built to do, which is refuse that option. The math is clean attrition accounting: a body sized for the cost of a creature that does two things, sold for the cost of a creature that only does one.

Hulking Ogre (uds)
UDS · #87common
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $2.02
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't block.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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