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Kronch Wrangler

Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaGreen mana

The trigger reads like a payoff bolted onto an aggressive body, and the gap between the two is the whole design problem. A 2/1 with trample for two wants to attack immediately; the counter engine wants you casting power-4 creatures, a curve that peaks several turns later. Green rarely resolves that tension cleanly, because the deck that plays a two-drop beater early is not usually the deck flooding the board with fatties on turn four. The saving detail is that the trigger keys off power on entry rather than mana value: a token that arrives at 4 power or more counts just as well as an expensive fatty, so the Wrangler can snowball off go-wide shells that generate large tokens, not only off literal big drops. The wording is strict on one point: the creature has to be at power 4 or greater at the moment it enters. That is a lower bar than it looks, because a static anthem applies its boost as part of the creature entering, so a 3-power body arriving under an anthem does qualify; what fails to trigger is a creature that only crosses the threshold later, from a counter or a pump spell resolving after it is already on the battlefield. Each qualifying enter adds a counter with no cap, and trample converts those counters into unblocked damage rather than letting a chump soak them. The result is a threat that punishes being left unanswered early, then punishes it again as the board fills out around it.

Kronch Wrangler (war)
WAR · #166common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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