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Iron Mastiff

Artifact Creature — Dog4 generic mana

The 4/4 body is the boring part; the attack trigger is a d20 table bolted to the declare-attackers step, adding a burst of damage on top of the creature's ordinary combat damage rather than replacing it. Swing, roll, and let the number rule: a 1 through 9 sends four back at its own controller, a 10 through 19 hits the defending player, and a natural 20 sprays four at every opponent at once. All of that resolves as the mastiff enters combat, so the trigger and the eventual combat damage are two separate events; a clean roll lands the trigger damage before the dog then bites again in the combat damage step. The multiple-die clause rewards spreading an assault rather than piling onto one player: you roll one d20 per player being attacked and keep only the highest, so pointing several attackers at several different players in the same combat stacks the odds of clearing the 10 threshold far higher than a lone swing manages. This wires the die-roll subtheme into the attack step, where its variance carries a self-directed downside that spell-based rolls rarely do: the same swing can advance your board, whiff, or turn around on you. The cost is control over the outcome, and it applies only on the offensive. The trigger never fires on defense, so a mastiff held back is simply a vanilla 4/4 wall with none of the gamble.

Iron Mastiff (clb)
CLB · #317uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $1.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, roll a d20 for each player being attacked and ignore all but the highest roll. 1—9 | This creature deals damage equal to its power to you. 10—19 | This creature deals damage equal to its power to defending player. 20 | This creature deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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