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Kona, Rescue Beastie

Legendary Creature — Beast Survivor3 generic manaGreen mana

Green has always turned aggression into acceleration, but the tradition usually asks the creature to connect: trample through, land the hit, then ramp off the damage. This asks only that the Beast be tapped when the second main phase rolls around, which is a subtler payment. The trigger fires off any tap you like: an attack, convoke, a tap ability, so a stalled board can still find a reason to commit. Because it puts the permanent onto the battlefield rather than casting it, the mechanic sidesteps the counterspells that answer cast spells, and it works on any permanent type, not just a creature. The reward scales with whatever your hand is holding: a five-drop you would rather not pay for, a permanent an opponent was holding up a counterspell to stop, even a spare land dropped as a free extra. The tension is timing you do not fully control. A 4/3 wants to attack, and a tapped attacker invites removal on the crackback; the body is fragile enough that tapping it out is a real exposure rather than a formality. What the design rewards is a builder who treats the attack step as the price of the trigger instead of a gamble, and who fills the hand with permanents worth cheating rather than spells to cast the honest way.

Kona, Rescue Beastie (dsk)
DSK · #299rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.05
Foil: $1.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if Kona is tapped, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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