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Iron-Fist Pulverizer

Creature — Giant Warrior4 generic manaRed mana

The reward for the second-spell-per-turn build, wearing a body that answers the deck's usual liability. Spellslinger payoffs tend to arrive on fragile frames: the tension in the archetype has always been that the creatures rewarding a low-creature, high-instant-and-sorcery build are exactly the ones a red or green deck can burn or fight off before the payoff matters. This one shows up as a 4/5 with reach, which is to say it survives the removal and the attackers that usually punish the strategy, and it clocks fliers on defense besides. The trigger itself is quiet by design: two damage to an opponent's face each turn you chain a second spell, with a scry stapled on so the same cast that pings also smooths the next draw. Neither half is large in isolation; the point is that both fire off the same condition you were already building toward, turning a deckbuilding constraint you had already paid for into incremental reach and card selection. The scry marks this as a grinder rather than a burst payoff: it wants a long game of two-spell turns, filtering toward more of them, not a single explosive turn. Durability is the whole argument for it over the fragile end of its lineage. It is a payoff you can actually leave on the board and expect to still have next turn.

Iron-Fist Pulverizer (otj)
OTJ · #131common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, this creature deals 2 damage to target opponent. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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